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Nana Nut · 03-30-2009, 11:23 AM

Does anyone have ANY ideas on how to keep squirrels out of the banana plants?? I live in North Central Florida and have a lovely little stand of banana plants that are just starting to grow now that temps have warmed, but the squirrels climb up them and chew the absolute sh*t out of the core of the brand new leaves!

I have tried everything I can think of, even wrapping the stalks with layers of bird guard, foil, danging pans, smelly stuff, pepper...nothing works but to stand out there 24x7 with a slingshot...

Any ideas on how to keep these useless varmints out of my bananas would be appreciated. They look like they've been thru a chip shredder, and ALL the new baby leaves are shot.

03-30-2009, 11:23 AM	#1 (permalink)
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