Control Squirrels Vegetable Garden

To keep squirrels out of your flower garden sprinkle cat litter around the borders of the garden.

Control squirrels vegetable garden. Squirrels can not stand the smell of humans so they leave the gardens alone plant nasturtiums marigolds and mustard as a border around your vegetable garden. With the exception of flying squirrels found in various areas around the country including the east coast and pacific northwest these rodents are active during daylight hours. These plants have a strong aroma. Watch for these signs that squirrels are visiting your garden.

Squirrel decoys noisemakers and sprinklers. Shallow digging spots in planting beds. When squirrels are eating the vegetables from your garden they are usually hungry or thirsty and cannot find food elsewhere. Squirrels can create all kinds of damage in the garden.

Try planting mint pots at the edges of your vegetable garden to keep the thieves away. One of the most effective ways to get squirrels to go away is to remove the food source. Although squirrels have the ability to overcome a very sturdy barrier with their digging and gnawing a floating row cover is surprisingly effective as a barrier in the vegetable garden. Squirrels come around because of bird feeders or other food sources in your yard such as natural vegetation or a home garden.

Squirrels do not like the feeling of enclosure which would prevent their ability to sprint away from a predator. A dog is a great squirrel chaser if that s an option in your backyard.