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Clear Plastic to Keep Squirrels Out of Pears

Squirrels ate every pear from my tree a few years ago. They start early in the season, well before the fruit ripens. The next year as soon as I noticed the fruit being eaten, I wrapped the tree with enormous sheets of clear plastic that I bought in the paint department sold as dropcloths. I bought 3 of the cheapest, biggest ones, spent less than $10. Then with the help of my son and a ladder, I wrapped the tree with the plastic, pinning it to branches and to itself with clothespins. My tree is about 10 years old and about 15 feet high.

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The wrap job is nowhere near perfect but it works nevertheless. I concentrate on covering the branches with the most fruit. Some branches are too high so I don't get those covered. I loosely closepin the gaps between the sheets and I pin the plastic to the lower branches and close to the trunk.

In my yard, the squirrels jump from other trees onto the pear tree as well as approach from below. Even though the plastic is rather thin, the wrap job stays intact for the season. Windy days pop a clothepin or two off so I repair it, if necessary. The fruit seem to ripen just fine. Hooray! I save the plastic for next year. I have done this 3 years in a row with very good results.

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September 27, 20170 found this helpful

It works!

For the first time in 4 years I have been able to harvest apples. I tried the plastic around where the tree adjoins a wooden fence (the squirrels run across the top of the fence-we call it the squirrel freeway- and jump into the apple tree).

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I pinned it to the branches so it hangs down past the fence and they can't leap into the tree anymore. On the ground I put chicken wire around the base of the tree with plastic over that. They hate it. Thank you for the great tip.

 
May 7, 20190 found this helpful

The only way to keep your peaches for yourself is to harvest them before they are ripe and let them ripen indoors. I have tried everything else .

 

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