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The ones in my area laughed at the hot pepper. I tried the seeds/suet cakes with the pepper already in it, as well as just adding cayenne pepper directly into the feeder.
What does work are the Squirrel Buster feeders. I have had them for over ten years and each generation of squirrel tries their best, but they never succeed (other than getting a seed that gets stuck under the bottom). The folks at Brome provide great customer service. No relation to the company - just a very satisfied consumer.
Oh mine definitely do NOT like the hot pepper. In fact I am going to start buying it by the quart and sprinkling it around my flowers to keep them from digging.
I have one squirrel buster feeder, but they still managed to get to the birdseed somehow. The pepper though - that seems to keep them rather disinterested. I think a few new ones came to town and they have been digging after discovering the birdseed was not appealing.
We can have a fair bit of mosquitoes, but I seem to have gotten immune to them. Rabbits and voles can be a problem for winter damage to perennials, and squirrels can dig up things we don't want dug up (ex seedlings) while chipmunks steal fruit. Wasps and slugs can be annoying too, as well as Japanese beetles, cucumber beetles, squash vine borers, cabbage worms and aphids, but generally not devastating. The dandelion situation also feels a bit hopeless.
Bermuda grass, sheep sorrel, fire ants, vetch, armadillos, deer, and crab grass. I don’t mind most insects, birds, squirrels or chipmunks. Wild hogs tore up a newly mulched area where we were trying to improve the soil. They uprooted bulbs and even shrubs leaving a trail of poop and destruction half a mile long.
Weeds are a thing. But I don't use herbicides on my food. And then the deer show up out of season when I am trying to grow things. For them. For later. When they are in season. I have the perfect stainless steel broadhead pesticide that works wonders on them .... YUMMY .
They have decided my daffodils and iris beds are havens to mice and weeds so they mowed them over.
I am not happy.
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