How do you keep chipmunks out of pots?
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Try these tactics:
- Sprinkle a handful of used kitty litter around potted plants.
- Hang a mesh bag full of human hair or dog fur from the branches of each potted plant or from a stake stuck into the soil of each plant's pot.
- Dust the leaves of each potted plant with dried cayenne pepper.
Herein, what will keep chipmunks away?
How to Keep Chipmunks Away
- Eliminate Food Sources. Chipmunks like to eat fruit, nuts and seeds.
- Garlic and Hot Peppers. Chipmunks are not very fond of the smell of garlic and marigolds supposedly, so you can actually make your own repellant by using them.
- Mothballs.
- Netting/ Fences.
- Yard Guard.
- Traps.
Keeping this in view, how do you keep squirrels and chipmunks out of potted plants?
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- You might try fitting screen or wire mesh around your potted plants, or covering the dirt around plants with sticky tape or stones.
- Lure them away from potted plants and bulbs by feeding them corn or sunflower seeds in a feeder located in another part of the yard.
Apply a taste or scent repellent around the problem area to help ward off the particular animal. Commercial repellents such as pepper sprays and predator urine deter the critters and keep them from digging your mulch or flowers.