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Squirrel Repellant?

Here's what a member of my Western Cascades Fruit Society swears by:

You might try “Plantskydd” to repel squirrels. It would not work on raccoons. It is a blood cell preparation that comes either pre mixed or as a dry powder. It works well to repel rabbits and deer. The only caution is to not use it directly on the fruit that you would eat. Once it dries on the plant it seems to last several months. The pre mixed preparation settles out and is very hard to re-mix. And you need to freeze what you do not use or it will rot. The powder can be mixed in small quantities according what you might use at the time. I mix mine with an egg beater and then strain the mix through an old nylon sock or apple maggot sock into my sprayer to avoid chunks that will plug the sprayer nozzle.
 

Hanging socks in trees filled with garlic powder seems to work.  The garlic powder has to be refreshed every week or so, but at least it's cheep.

Good luck with figuring out a solution to that problem.  I haven't tried it yet, but my mother-in-law swears by moth balls in little sacks hung around what you're trying to protect.

A ladies leg hose used and filled with blood meal then dipped in ammonia works for weeks.
I made up 30 golf ball size balls and hung around garden.
It does work, but in my case unless I totally eliminated them they would go rob something else.

This worked on deer raccoons and rabbits along with squirrels, the balls need re dipped every month to stay effective.

Doug

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