Squirrel disaster

[CTB]

so sorry, did you see the possum?

[stefpix]

how did you deal with the possum?
I wet to Lowes and Home Depot and I looked at the products that were not cheap.

I have Habanero peppers and garlic. will add rosemary too. I will blend them and let them sit overnight. flilter it and then I will blend 2 egg whites and mix it all together with also some pepper powder and bloodmeal . I think the egg whites may make the concotion stick to where I spray.

I read bloodmeal repels deer and rodents. I just hope it is not too much nitrogen that will prevents orchids to bloom.

But squirrel teeth may be worse than too much nitrogen.

I may apply also some sulfur dust.

and mothballs here and there

[Leafmite]

Good luck discouraging the squirrels. I hope all your plants and orchids recover. Perhaps you could buy a few plants they won't like. Artemisia absinthium would be very bitter. Feverfew (an herb), and rue (another herb) would also give a squirrel a bit of a shock. Good luck.

[orchidsarefun]

is there some way to control access ? you mentioned cables. If they use these to access your area maybe you can smear something stinky,sticky, urine-ie, peanut and glue buttery for about a foot along the cables and that would stop access. I'm sure that after a week of tight-roping for nothing they would stop.

[Leafmite]

Unfortunately, he mentioned power lines as their access point. I mix the more bitter herbs with my vegetables, roses and berries to discourage rabbits, chipmunks and squirrels. Artemisia, rue, tansey, and feverfew seem to be good deterrents. A little squirrel nibbles those and suddenly, it prefers to hunt down acorns or raid bird feeders. : )

[RJSquirrel]

if they had something else to eat they might not eat yer orchids. I have squirrels everywhere and all they do is lay on the fence and sun around the plants. they never eaten a bite. but plenty feed them all kinds of stuff. they liked smoked almonds and ritz crackers . they also might be eating at yer plants trying to dig up buried peanuts. i was growing peanuts inadvertently. But be it known the bulbs of orchids are sweet and contain a lot of natural sugar. Take a bite out of one and it taste like sugar cane. so I can see why they might like it if they have a sweet tooth.

dont hurt them squirrels. you will haunted in yer sleep if you do
may a mad squirrel fly up yer pants leg

[Vanda lover]

I find this puzzling because I used to summer my orchid on shelves on a fence in our yard and although I worried that the squirrels would do damage, the worst they did was knock one over. We had loads of squirrels, black, grey and red, as well as chipmunks.

[stefpix]

Squirrels ate saplings more than orchids. I know they love mango seeds. Person that does lectures for Brooklyn Botanic Garden wrote me that the population of squirrels in NYC is out of control. I think now green stuff / buds is their main food. They eat bark too. I will mix pepper , garlic and peanut butter on their access route and will spray plants / orchids with some habanero concotion

[dounoharm]

MOTH BALLS REPEL THE VARMINTS!!

[orchids3]

For goodness sake - try the mix of peanut butter and plaster of paris!
The opposum was caught in a rat trap.