Squirrel problem?

I have contacted the Dept of Agriculture and the Dept of Fish and Wild Life Conservation and had very few results. I live in Florida and have a small garden (about 400sqft). What would be the best way to detour or combat squirrels from getting into the garden?Squirrel problem?
try putting moth balls around your garden. And buy a fake cat or dog and put in the garden. Also put a stick in the ground and tie a couple of tin plates on a string attached to the pole. This will make no ice in the wind. This should solve your problem.Squirrel problem?
try little fences around your garden although i think i'm thinking of ducks or something. my aunt used sacks of garlic to keep rabbits and birds away 2 years ago and it actually worked. take old stockings and make little sacks out of them. fill them with slightly crushed garlic and put them on sticks around your garden. if that doesn't work, put trays of nuts or seeds at a bit of a distance from the garden so the squirrels can get what they want without eating your garden. little by little put the trays further from the garden and eventually stop putting them there all together so that they think that there's no more food. I've never really had this problem so i think i'm starting to use like human phychology.
you can purchase `fruit cages` plastic posts with nylon netting all over cover ,to fence any sized area.


hope this helps
get a small trap and collect them and move them somewhere else
If you are talking about tree squirrels I would suggest hanging bird feeders or squirrel feeders away from the garden and filling them with sunflower seeds. We have counted 18 in our yard at one time feeding from the bird feeders and squirrl feeders. I have grown a garden here for about 35 years and have never had a problem with them in my garden.
Poison-covered nuts





Get a bb/pellet gun





Squirrels are extremely ingenious and you won't be able to deter them by any other means. If you make a fence, they will climb it. They have been known to balance on fishing line to get down to bird feeders if they have to.
nuts on the oustide!
o yeah...........i have a lot of squirrel visitors too................yes,throw the notson to the opposite side of your lilttle garden
Either take away the food source that they are after (probably the nuts on the tree), or kill them. They are really hard to keep out, once they have found a food source that they like. You can pick up all of the nuts from you yard when they fall and throw them somewhere else. The squirrels should go where the food is.
I have put up a small wire fence around mine. Then in the area where they would dig I put a weave net over (they do not get in the Tomato area) and now I just go out and loosen the dirt more often and they stay away. Have also made sure to have no close over hanging tree limbs. Here in AL I have alot of squirrels. So hopefully this might work for you
I understand moth balls will do the trick. Good luck. :%26gt;)
In California ground squirrels are considered vermin and you can remove them by any means available. Tree squirrels are considered game and you need a license and open season. Squirrels are very hard to deter without removal and they cause a lot of damage (at least our ground squirrels do). You can get a live trap. Squirrels are very curious and if you get a live trap with a towel over it, they eventually go in to check things out. You can then deal with the animal any way you chose to