Those %&$^*$@ squirrels….

Ok, the squirrels are at it again. First they were nesting in my watering can. After evicting them from there I began transplanting my 18 tomato plants, 10 basil plants, 4 hot pepper plants and my rosemary, chives, thyme, sage, oregano and parsley. (And yes, this is all on a 6 foot by 3 foot, gets only about 3 hours of sun patio, I'm optimistic). Noticed a few digging marks in my newly transplanted container garden so I tried yelling and throwing things out the window at them. Even started letting Moe out on the patio, except she's such a chicken that the minute the wind would blow, she would run back inside the house.

My hot pepper plants have been completely dug up 3 times now. I have replanted my extra seedlings and then stashed the container in a different spot, hoping it was the location they liked. Nope, they were dug up again this weekend. So I decided this meant war. I spent the next hour on the web researching how to get these tree rats to leave my small and humble garden alone. And after visiting such websites as The North American Defense Against Squirrels and Dead Squirrel, I found one way that would do it.

Hot Pepper Spray.

Now since they seem to love my pepper plants, I find it amusing that pepper spray will deter them, but i'll figure, why not, after all the heat is in the fruit, and my plants haven't bore any fruit yet. So I begin to wonder if the squirrels know that the plant will eventually bear a fruit that produces that stuff that keeps them away and that's why they keep going after that plant.

Then, watching out the window I decided that our squirrels are suicidal. That's why they keep going for the pepper plant. "Suicidal squirrels," you say, "but how do you know". Well, after causing havoc on the pepper plant it began chewing our camping fuel container. It must be trying to blow itself up. And I'm not going to stop it. I just hope it doesn't take my tomatoes with it!

GF