Last year I started an all out war on squirrels & deer. I had a small garden last year and I'm not sure that I got any good tomatoes. I enlarged my garden a lot last fall and kept repeating my goal to get "one good tomato" this year.
I used Tenax deer fencing and its worked great - no losses inside the fence to deer this year. There are so many deer here that they don't grow very big.
I started trapping squirrels in the winter when there was less food available. I got creative with wiring food items to the trap, placing peanut butter in small bowls in the trap, and covering the peanut butter with tortillas so that the squirrels had to "dig through" the tortilla thereby setting off the trap.
I always thought we must have a family of squirrels around us but after all the trapping there were still plenty to see! I think thinning them out just reduced the feeding pressure.
I've had some losses this year - but not many - and plenty of tomatoes!
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