Georgia Gardening: How to keep animals out fruit trees?, 1 by sterhill

sterhill wrote:
Ho - I got this one! I have battled the squirrels for four years over my peach tree. The little buggers would pull off the 1" green peaches, take a bite, throw it on the ground and go for the next one and repeat the process. They are so stupid!

I tried lots of things that didn't work, searched the net for answers and nothing! but finally.... I bought a really big bird baffle, cut off any limbs lower than 5 feet and the squirrels can't get up into the tree now. This year I had to get longer bolts to hold on the baffle as the trunk is bigger. But it works. There are no trees close by to jump from.

I had hot, sweet, delicious peaches off this tree for the first time last year.