I’ve been living with the enemy for awhile now, and have found out a few things, be interesting to hear other thoughts.

Though I will occasionally lose a plant to burrowing foraging squirrels, they generally stay away from most of my garden EXCEPT if I plant dill. Dill is to squirrels as catnip is to cats, or at least that’s been my observation. They will totally destroy it within a day of planting a plug. I tried growing it from seed, but that didn’t fare any better, they dug up the seeds and ate them.

One other thing you folks can try is adding a wild grape arbor. It supplies wild food for the birds to keep them around and allow them to, in some cases, winter over, yet much of the fruit isn’t easily accessible to the squirrels. Another benefit to the grape arbor is fresh grapeleaves for making stuffed grapeleaves. My grapes aren’t human edible, they’re mostly seed and very, very sour.