[Sca-cooks] fruit trees

[Jane Boyko]

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:
>
>  
>
>>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:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>--- Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Huette commented:
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>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
>>    
>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>>		
>>>____________________________________________________ 
>>>Yahoo! Sports 
>>>Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football 
>>>http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com
>>>_______________________________________________
>>>Sca-cooks mailing list
>>>Sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>>>http://www.ansteorra.org/mailman/listinfo/sca-cooks
>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>_______________________________________________
>>Sca-cooks mailing list
>>Sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>>http://www.ansteorra.org/mailman/listinfo/sca-cooks
>>
>>    
>>
>
>
>Remember that while money talks, chocolate sings.
>
>
>	
>		
>__________________________________ 
>Do you Yahoo!? 
>Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. 
>http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
>_______________________________________________
>Sca-cooks mailing list
>Sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>http://www.ansteorra.org/mailman/listinfo/sca-cooks
>
>  
>