Faking Out The Squirrels

For the record Squirrels don’t like tomatoes. I have watched many a squirrel bite into many tomatoes and after one unpleasant bite after another they don’t learn that all those tomatoes taste the same and they don’t like them. This fact does not stop the dumber than a box of hammers rodents from constantly biting my tomatoes.

I have a number of cherry tomato plants and I have been keeping my eye on the the ripening fruit. I think that some tomatoes might be ripe tomorrow and when tomorrow comes the fruit is missing. Did I dream that there were almost ripe tomatoes? NO! It’s just that a squirrel has come and stolen the red ones.

So today I put two fake snakes up on top of my garden fence. As I was looking out the window tonight I saw a squirrel run along the top of the fence and stop and look at the snake. It stood there for a good five minutes. Long enough for me to take this blurry picture of it and to run down stairs and outside and scare it away with my voice.

I then sprinkled a bunch of cayenne pepper all long the top of that stringer. I hope between the pepper and the snake the squirrel will think twice about stealing my tomatoes. I am considering getting a fake owl and an ultra sonic noise machine.

I am happy for squirrels to eat the acorns and other food that grows on my property, but just biting the tomatoes and discarding them is maddening. I am not running a squirrel drive thru. Feeding squirrels is not my pleasure.