STOP SQUIRRELS from Destroying Your GARDEN!

Rick Bickling, The How Do Gardener, describes his moderately epic quest to keep squirrels from terrorizing his garden, and the ONE solution that is SO STUPID, that it just might work better than anything.
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[TheHowDoGardener]

Thank you so much for the kind words. Glad you liked it. You have to admit they are smart. Take care and happy gardening.

[patjopling]

This was HILARIOUS!!! I have a friend of mine and his best friend, a WWII veteran, gave me some pretty good entertainment when they devised several squirrel contraptions to try and keep them away from the birdfeeder… and yes, I think there are squirrel engineers that help figure out ways around these. Thank You for an informative & extremely entertaining video!

[whooshr]

Omg…I literally laughed out loud when that flying dancer popped up on the screen…bravo! You’ve outdone yourself, with this video and with your solution…perfect! Thanks for the fine entertainment you’ve provided. You seriously deserve some kind of award for your video recording/editing skills! I hope this solution continues to work – keep us posted!

[MicheleYoung-ws]

Hysterical 😅😅! I was harassed by squirrels 8n my garden for twenty years until I got the ultimate Squirrel hunter....a mini dachshund!! She's the best 😊

[aks]

I am also a backyard gardener haunted and traumatized by ground squirrels here in bay area, ca. I really liked your idea of dancing men to scare them away and will it try soon.
I am concerned though that after some time, squirrels will learn to ignore this threat and hence, thought of an idea to improve upon your solution. I intend to use a cheap motion sensor, mounted on the tree trunk, to generate a signal to turn on power for inflatable dancing men for 5-10 minutes upon detecting some motion. I have a Wyze monitoring camera system ( which comes very cheap ) and adding a motion sensor to it and a trigger switch for 120v should suffice to achieve my object at very low cost. The system can be moved from one tree to next depending on the ripening time of the fruit.

[GrowArt]

I got a good laugh out of your video! What a hoot! I battle squirrels more than anything else. They have destroyed bird feeders, eaten all my strawberries, dug up my seedlings and made my lawn look like a bombing range! I am definitely trying this! Thank you!

[margaretmarshall]

Awesome video. And I’ve gotten not one peach yet from my good sized peach tree, and my young plum tree may not survive at all after the squirrels ate so many shoots and broke off nearly every branch. Maybe I’ll try this next year. Subscribed!

[LuvBritTV]

Thank you for the heads up on this latest video, you are a genius! I don't grow any fruit here, too cold in my neck of the woods in Canada, no peach trees for me though I've thought of blueberries... but not seriously. I think you may have a winner there, they could get used to it, but I think the sheer erratic movement and size possibly colour, are the perfect combination! I will tuck that into my memory banks, but I have no outdoor plug at the moment. Do they come in battery or solar? Right now I have my raised bed going as I said in the last video, and got hoops and put that veggie white covering over the seedlings, it seems to have worked. No messing at all from squirrels or chipmunks. Now this could be because the veggies are still small and the bed is waist high, but there's a handy fence and shed nearby for jumping points? So I am not sure how it'll go when I take off the cover. I will set up my Orbit motion sprinkler jet pointed their way if there's a hint of a problem. I also plant marigolds and geraniums nearby as they don't like the smell apparently, and tea tree oil too.

Glad you're getting to enjoy the "fruits" of your labours literally! I think your videos are fantastic, you must spend a lot of time editing, and your dry sense of humour is a hit with me as I'm originally British and we have that in our DNA I think! Your garden is lovely too btw.
I recently just had to clean out my garden shed, disgusting mouse nest filled with foul smelling urine in one of my garden pots ... truly cringe-worthy! 😤Now I read they don't like peppermint smell, so I'm putting cotton balls in the corners soaked in peppermint essential oil. Plus I cleaned it all with a bleach solution, so I'm hoping something works!?

Which reminds me, I bought fox urine pellets to ward off chipmunks etc, doesn't work. I also had squirrels chew through wiring under my car hood when I was at work, on the way home in a rainstorm my wipers quit working! Another time my headlights went out! The mechanic told me there was half a bagel stuffed down the side of my engine! I blame Doug the guy I worked with who used to feed the "rats with good PR" in the area where I parked my car!
p.s. I subscribed!

[emilytemeyer]

Great story telling! Thanks for the video.

[parvat]

Thank you for your nice advice.would you pls let us know how to get rid of moles in our garden ?They made my garden look like a battle ground full of holes!! Appreciate it

[victoriator]

What an ordeal! Luckily you kept your sense of humor. We also have squirrels and your experience will become handy.

[TalldrinkHO]

That was very well done thank you!
This year I had a nest of little red squirrels in the barn. I picked up the nest and put it outside and waited for a hot day that chased them out of the barn and fixed the whole they came through.
The peach tree with be my next big problem. Thank you for the idea.

[crystalnava]

😂 love this video. Thanks for the tips. I'm trying rocks in my pots with flowers. Ever considered writing a book? Good luck with them squirrels 😃

[krozzbow]

With your first squirrel video lingering in my head this sequel is hysterical. Wonder what despair your dad had with these garden demons. Looking forward to saga.

[kated]

We did not eat a single ball zucchini last year. They kept "mysteriously" vanishing at a squirrel-perfect size...
Thankfully the plum tree produced so plentifully that we had an amazing harvest despite the squirrels and raccoons feasting day and night. One cheeky little chipmunk even dug a new entrance to his burrow right underneath the plum tree. The 5 neighborhood cats, who actively hunted him all summer, all failed to catch him or even convince him to move... so mad respect for the bold and clever little guy!

[jalapenopapper]

🤣😆 OMG I was not expecting that. I am laugh crying so hard. 😂

[desertwife]

In the desert here, (California), we have lots of ground squirrels. Oh my gosh, we have everything in the garden behind wire and wrapped in tulle! They are so smart and I love them and am always trying to outsmart them. "you have to be smarter than what you're working with", is something I've always heard. I'm dumber than a squirrel I guess. LOL I love your videos. Thank you! I may buy some of these air critters, good thing we're not in an HOA! LOL

[GinaSiska]

Would love to see an update on the dancing man vs squirrel 🐿️ battle! We have the same problem here but n Maryland.

[abbyvon]

This is how you engage and teach people!

[Gothbrooks]

Fantastic video.. squirrels are my nemesis here in the PNW.