i set up a couple nice bird feeders on the other side of my yard close to the woods, the squirrels never bother with my garden when they have and easier food source, air rifle works too i guess, but you cant always be there watching your plants, they really got you good...

'click click, BOOM!' ...well, that or the pepper spray! Hope you get something sorted...I know how frustrating it is to lose plants/crops to pests... I've just lost 50% of my french beans to something or other... and seeing as I only had ten plants to start with tat's a pretty big kick in the teeth! lol Keep on keeping on!

Have you looked into getting a Contech CRO101 Scarecrow Motion Activated Sprinkler? Perhaps get a few and arm them from the corn into the woods. Then those turrets will gun down anything that moves. I have one and I use it to fight off the cats trying to eat my chickens.

This is perfect to spray in the late evening on melons or any kind of veggie or fruit to keep the critters away. It does wear off so maybe spray one or two times a week unless it rains heavy.

Hey thats a good way to look at it. It is really sweet.

Nice harvest btw, maybe leave the corn on for another week b4 pickn... They look like super market corn, a common mix of white and yellow

I have been hunting and eating them, but it is impossible to make a dent in their numbers. This year I bought enough "PoultryNet" to surround the garden. I have tried all sorts of other fences with no luck. This year i'm hoping the electric net will do the trick.

Its like a bunch of very very hot peppers and as you blend them up just add some water and keep blending then strain it into a bottle .Im gonna spray mine on the cob and the plant cause they were chewing my plant before they got cobs.

Take 8 cloves of garlic and 8 habanero peppers and put in blender.Cover with water and chop them up. Pour this into a container and hide it outside somewhere and let it steep all night and the next day. Then in the late evening strain it out through some cheesecloth into a gallon sprayer. Add a teaspoon of real soap like Ivory dish soap and it is ready to use.

Oh, just a thought, corn fed squirrels ought to be mighty tasty later on when the season comes in.

Bummer on your corn, they sure made a mess of it. Hope you get to keep more of your next batch.

Thanks

Sorry for your loss man. Hope the pepper spray works for you, if not maybe you could have squirrel stew. LOL Best of luck with the rest of your crop.

If you have live traps you can catch them and relocate them.

At least they did leave you some ears. They say the hot pepper spray does work, check out mhpgardener on KZfaq, he uses Scorpion and Fatali peppers to make his. I had a two acre corn patch on the backside of the place, between the squirrels, racoons and deer they ate it up. I did manage to at least get enough to put in the freezer. Good luck with your later corn!

Wow.. sorry that happened.Crazy! I wish you much success with that hot pepper spray.

amazing

Wow is that a lot

The squirrels would steal your Doritos if they could. We have a American bobtail cat that catches and eats them. She eats chipmunks too. I make a garlic pepper spray that would knock a bear down in its tracks and it works for bug control as well.

You kept your cool pretty well with that critter on cam.. I'd be runnin' em right outa there! Aside from the losses, the corn looks great, nice work

I sprayed hot pepper spray.It seemed to work for a few days but I guess they got prone to it lol

im sorry that happened.

How is the taste on the serendipity? i planted 4 rows along with my ambrosia just because it looked good when yours was about a foot high

I'm sorry, mhpgardener plants not Fatali, but Super Datil and Trinidad Scorpion hot peppers.

I think you need to get them squirrels a flea collar and give them names like...Edward and Jacob and Bella blah hahaha

So sorry about that

Yea thanks never tried that before lol

Do you do anything to stop them?

Yes they did I hate it to

Alright thanks Ill try that

Yea it was hard most of it was gone anyways so I just let him chew lol.Im working on a fence now and a rabbit hitch and a chicken coop and about 100000000 other things lol Might not grow corn next year just for that reason once they find it they keep coming back.

Well next year use Sompthing with BT in it it will kill the worms in there tracts

How might I make this hot pepper spray you speak of. And also how do I apply it-just to the cobs? the stalk? both?

please... the problem is finding the ammo lol

That's really annoying! But I guess that just means that you corn is so delicious the squirrels cannot resist them!

Did you enjoy that High FRuctose syrup?

Mine tasted very good and sweet almost couldn't believe it

Did u spray that corn?

cabelas is 70 bucks for 20 bullets

really Can I get the recipe for your spray

okay smith & wesson 500 lol

lol I could see that happening to me.

I battle them every year. It is terrible at my place >:-(

I can't stand them squirrels, they get me every year. Hopefully with the hot pepper wax this year I'll get better results.

good luck paying for the ammo haha

You need a terrier. LOL!

You can borrow my gun

AWWWWW..That's just not right. Hope you can save the next round from them.

an air rilfe will do the job..

lol okay Ill think of something lol

btw- i hope to see some dead squirrels on the next video, ha

Thats what people are telling me lol

I'm allergic to all corn products. Yall have no clue how much corn is in everything!! Also those damn squirrel are eatn out of my bird feeder and wont go to his feeder mile down.

Get a cat or some 410s

ouch! Man, how can you sit their and film the destruction?? .22 bullets are cheap, shoot away!!! Nothing like feeding the wildlife :) Where is the fence at??? I wouldnt even consider a garden especially corn without a fence, deer and other wildlife will destroy your hopes every time