>>Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 10:06:05 -0700 (PDT) From: nancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello Sandy - I've lost a number of plants to squirrels myself; I do not know whether keiki paste can save them or not, but I can send you my recipe for 'Squirrel Sauce Picquant' - I've started to permit my son to target them with my BB rifle. Incredibly and maddeningly destructive - for some reason, encyclia and certain laelia p'bulbs are very attractive to them. Also, potting in round clay pellets (they look like Cocoa Puffs cereal) is a mistake I will not make again! Good luck - Nancy<< This may be a way to keep squirrels of your bulbs, it is a good idea in another way. Squirrels, being mammals cannot stand the taste of capsaicin, the sharp taste in red peppers. This effect is used in keeping birdseeds mouse-free. Add a little capsaicin and the mice stay off it. Birds do not mind the taste. Now It might help to spray any squirrel-receptive plant with a mixture of water and Tabasco-sauce, to an extend that you feel the burning once you tip the plant with your tongue. Another tip? I know of a man who had some trouble with both birds and mammals in his garden and bought a large latex snake (some petshops sell these..)This he placed in a spot where it could easyly be seen by any passing animal. It helped a lot, he told me, untill a pair of wrens started to make a nest just below the fakesnake. They viewed through the trick probably. Now the wrens wern't harmfull to the fruits, but after a while other birds got the message from them. Just some idea's.. Peter Mudde _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) orchids@orchidguide.com http://orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids_orchidguide.com
