[Sca-cooks] fruit trees
Jane Boyko
jboyko at magma.ca
Sun Jun 19 16:38:13 PDT 2005
Yea, I hate that rule too. We just bought a house in suburbia and I
have squirrels digging in my potted herbs and taking my onions and
replanting them upside down. The cat gave chase once but the little
buggers have returned. I swear they watch from the trees for me to turn
my back. Anyhow, yesterday at Home Depot I was shown a solar powered
disk which emits a high pitch noise intended to deter squirrels, skunks,
raccoons etc but not affect cats. Its $34.95 Cdn. I am tempted to buy
it but it does not work when the sun isn't shining. It will hold a
charge for 5 hours.
Marina
Huette von Ahrens wrote:
>I wish that I could, but it is against the law to discharge fire arms in an urban area. Which
>is why squirrels like living here. The only effective method of extermination is to run them over
>with your car ...
>
>Huette
>
>--- John Kemker <john at kemker.org> wrote:
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>>Having been the property of several hunting felines, I must warn you
>>that cats don't really put much of a dent into a squirrel population.
>>Cats don't climb trees as much as we might think they do. Mostly they
>>stalk on the ground. This is good if you're trying to keep
>>ground-squirrels and moles down, but not so great if you're trying to
>>keep red or grey tree-rats down.
>>
>>If you want an effective method of keeping the tree-rat population down,
>>get yourself a good .22 rifle make Brunswick Stew with the results. [grin]
>>
>>--Cian
>>Who *likes* squirrels. In Brunswick Stew.
>>
>>Huette von Ahrens wrote:
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>>>--- Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com> wrote:
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>>>>Huette commented:
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>>>>>Our apricot trees just produced the best
>>>>>crop ever. And our little
>>>>>ultra-dwarf peach produced a dozen normal sized sweet, luscious
>>>>>peaches. Our neighbors white
>>>>>peach tree which is hanging more and more over the fence is overloaded
>>>>>with succulent white
>>>>>peaches, so sweet and juicy and ripe off the tree ... so much better
>>>>>tasting than anything the grocery store ever provides.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>Do you have problems with birds? If so, how do you solve this?
>>>>
>>>>When I had a peach tree at our other house, the birds would poke holes
>>>>in the fruit. I would have been willing to share if they'd done this to
>>>>just a few peaches or eat most of a peach. But they would poke a hole
>>>>in one fruit and then go on to another, and another...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Some bird problems, but not apparently as bad as yours. Our biggest problem is squirrels.
>>>They find the ripest, biggest, most luscious fruit, eat half of the fruit, throw it down and
>>>
>>>
>>then
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>>>go for another. I am debating about adopting an outdoor cat, even though I am allergic to
>>>them. But at leat they don't deliberately eat fruit. I wonder what kind of cat would go
>>>after squirrels? As far as I am concerned, squirrels are just rats in fluffy clothing with
>>>better PR. Fortunately, our apricot trees overproduce so that our losses don't affect us
>>>too much. My little peach tree wasn't bothered by birds and the squirrels didn't find it
>>>until I had harvested all but two peaches. I am not sure that the squirrels have found
>>>my neighbor's peach tree yet as the peaches aren't ripe yet.
>>>
>>>I haven't found any effective bird and squirrel deterrents. My mother used to cover the ultra
>>>dwarf peach tree with cheesecloth, but that really didn't do any good. The apricot trees
>>>are 40' and 30' tall. There isn't much one can do to protect such large trees. Other than
>>>perhaps a squirrel stalking cat. Hmmm ... I should look into hawks and owls too, although
>>>they probably wouldn't like living in an urban area.
>>>
>>>Huette
>>>
>>>
>>>Remember that while money talks, chocolate sings.
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