I have a problem with squirrels eating the bark on our red bud tree. Does anyone know where I can buy a tree baffle or how to make one? I have a baffle on our bird feeder, but that is too small for a tree.
By Kay from Beverly Hills, FL
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Put hot pepper sauce on it, critters do not like hot stuff, good luck.
We had trouble with a ground hog literally tearing up the concrete floor in one of our outbuildings. We used"fox urine". It comes in a small brown bottle usually in the hunting section. You can find this at a Rural King or outdoors store I suppose. We used cotton balls sacturated with the urine and placed them inside panty hose and put them in the ground hogs hole.
1) Have all your friends Save their large 2 liter soda-pop bottles
2) Rinse out bottles with warm tap water
3) Cut the labels off the empty plastic bottles
4) Cut the top off of the bottle with a pair of old scissors
5) Cut the bottom off (you will now have a tube)
6) Cut a vertical line from the bottom to the top.
7) Punch holes along both sides of the vertical line using a $1store hole punch.
8) Put the plastic tube you have just cut around the trunk of the tree (start from the bottom & work your way up)
Note:
* If your trunk is wider than a 2 liter pop-bottle, then simply use 2 (or 3) pop bottles
& lace both bottles to each other.
* You can also make these sections thinner buy cutting out a wider section along the "vertical cut" to accommodate thinner tree-trunks
* For extra durability, you can stack one piece of plastic directly over the top of another bottle to double the thickness of the sections.
* You can punch 4 or 5 holes on the tops & bottoms of our tubes as you stack them on the tree. This way the sections will not slip down the trunk
* Clear transparent bottles look better than the green ones
* Instead of step 6 (cutting a straight vertical line) you may want to try cutting a Spiral line because then you may not need to lace the sides together, you would simply slide the spiral on to the tree-trunk. I have no idea if this will work, it's just an idea.
other Ideas:
* It wouldn't look as good (clear) but you may want to try wrapping many layers of $1 store aluminum foil around the trunk.
* Rescue a feral or an outdoor cat to keep the squirrels away
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