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Saturn 5
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Saturn 5 asked in Home & GardenOther - Home & Garden · 1 decade ago

What could I spray on my TOMATO PLANTS or on the tomatoes to prevent SQUIRRELS from HARVESTING them ?

Every year, just as the tomatoes are beginning to ripen, the squirrels strip them from the vines, and carry them away. How can I prevent this?

I am hoping I can somehow make them un-desirable to squirrels, by spraying something on them.

Can you help ??

Thanks.

Update:

Reply to chicagirl51:

Thank you chicagirl51, for your pormpt answer, but the squirrels in my neighborhood have little fear of humans. They are very used to humans. I've tried your suggestion, and it simply has no effect. But thanks, anyway

Update 2:

Response to Jbull:

Thank you for answering, but my squirrels are so impatient, that they take them while still very green and not even beginning to turn red. I know if I harvest them at this stage, they will never ripen before they shrivel up. I've tried. But thanks for answering.

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  • beekybuzzard
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Mix 2 tablespoons of crushed red pepper with 1 cup of liquid soap into a gallon of water and spray in the morning and evening. It will also keep worms,grasshoppers, and many other garden pests off of fruits and vegetables.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    I certainly have a great squirrel inhabitants around right here and that they wouldnt even enable me get seeds began devoid of digging maximum of them up and eating the sprouts off .. how i ultimately dealt with it and its worked a hundred% is i offered an low-cost electric powered fence charger, a much less high priced spool of aluminum twine, and made stakes out of three/4" percentpipe with a hollow drilled in one end to run the twine with the aid of, then staked all the way around my backyard and ran the twine approximately 6" off of the floor ... the crows wont even get close to the backyard anymore ..

  • Jbull
    1 decade ago

    Hopefully they are going after the red tomatoes or the tomatoes that are starting to turn red. If your tomatoes are starting to turn red at all they can be picked and brought inside. They will continue to ripen properly off the plant.

  • chicagirl51
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Go to a hair salon and ask for the hair that they sweep up. Spread it around your garden and the squirrels will smell humans and stay away!

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