Squirrel Proofing Your Home & Garden [Paperback]

Rhonda Massingham Hart (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1999

This practical guide is filled with effective tips for keeping squirrels and their relatives from destroying gardens and birdfeeders, and invading attics, garages, and basements.

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From the Back Cover

Defend your home and garden from squirrels!

The bestselling author of Deer Proofing Your Yard & Garden helps homeowners battle one of nature's most wily and persistent creatures--squirrels--with a storehouse of environmentally responsible techniques that really work.

In her trademark light-hearted yet practical and authoritative style, Rhonda Massingham Hart explains how to

--Understand squirrels, chipmunks, groundhogs, and other squirrel relatives

--Defend your birdfeeders and design and build squirrel-proof feeders

--Banish squirrels and their relatives from your garden

--Protect your attic, garage, and basement from invasion

--Find and choose effective household and commercial repellents

In addition, you'll find lists of feeder foods and plants squirrels love--and those they'll prefer to avoid.

About the Author

Rhonda Massingham Hart is a master gardener and the author of Vertical Vegetables & Fruit, The Dirt-Cheap Green Thumb, Deerproofing Your Yard & Garden, and Squirrel Proofing Your Home & Garden. She has written articles for a variety of magazines, including Flower & Garden, Woman’s Day, and Fine Gardening. She writes extensively on organic gardening techniques and lives in Washington State.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC (December 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580171915
• ISBN-13: 978-1580171915
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,701,444 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A misleading title for a not-very-useful book, April 16, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Squirrel Proofing Your Home & Garden (Paperback)

I have a serious squirrel problem at home and thought this book would help. All it did was tell me how nice, brave, smart and resourceful squirrels are. In fact, the first 3/4 of the book is devoted to very complete descriptions of various breeds of squirrels. If you want to learn about squirrels, this is actually a good resource. The 'squirrel proofing' advice, when it does come, is restricted to a few pages at the end of the book -- and really doesnt tell you anything common sense or a 10 minute search of the web will. It didn't help my situation at all.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing for Ideas in Protection, August 6, 2006

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B. Kuczek (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Squirrel Proofing Your Home & Garden (Paperback)

Ms. Poe clearly has a thorough understanding of squirrels. In fact, you can sense a great appreciation for the smart litter critters which comes across in the book. Unfortunately, if you are a gardener looking for new and inventive ways to protect your investment from being ravaged by squirrels, this book definitely falls short. If you want to learn all about squirrels and identify just which species is attacking your flowers, then this book is for you. (In fact over half the book is dedicated to just this subject.) And unless you want the same, tired, ineffective tips and advice freely available on the internet, this book is not worth the investment.