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So let's see....I cage the fruit tree to protect it from the rabbits, deer browsing it, bucks rubbing it. Screen the fruit tree so the voles don't girdle it. And now I have to net the entire tree to keep the squirrels from eating the apples. HOW WILL A DEER EVER GET ONE SINGLE APPLE? :confused::D
Eat more squirrel. I have to imagine a fall apple-fattened squirrel would be pretty tasty. Those of us that haven't killed a deer since the last stock market crash have to take protein where we can find it.
I have a Keiffer pear right outside my back door. I fight with the squirrels every year. they will carry off a fully grown pear that must weight almost as much as they do. This year they seem to be upset because the pears are so small due to lack of rain.
Stu - post # 6 - Seems I've heard that advice before somewhere ...... ?? ;):D
Bur - post #10 - LOVE IT !!!! :p
Thankfully don't have squirrel probs due to being surrounded by oaks, pines & hemlocks. Squirrels have buffet goldmine without resorting to apples/crabs. We DO have furry creatures on a slightly larger scale ......:( ....... not gray or red, but black. Trade ya ?????
NY Terrence - We have coons around, but not many. The ones we do have seem to be more interested in the crayfish, frogs, salamanders in our pond - so far.
For the second time in the past few years, every apple disappeared on my +/- 15 year old Fuji tree in a week's time. We are thinking it was raccoons, but no evidence.