Squirrel Proofing Your Home and Garden

FROM THE PUBLISHER

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.

SYNOPSIS

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.

A former Master Gardener, Rhonda Massingham Hart is the author of such books as Bugs, Slugs & Other Thugs, Deer Proofing Your Yard & Garden, Squirrel Proofing Your Home & Garden and Dirt-Cheap Gardening, as well as Easter Eggs—By the Dozens!, You Can Carve Fantastic Jack-O-Lanterns, North Coast Roses, and Trellising. She has also written many bulletins. Rhonda has been published in a variety of magazines, including Flower & Garden, Woman's Day Better Living Series and Fine Gardening magazines. Her desire to deer- and squirrel-proof comes from her mutual respect for people and animals and from a desire to incorporate wildlife into our yards and lives. She has lectured extensively on pest proofing and organic gardening techniques and taught continuing adult education classes at her local community college. Bugs and dirt are in her blood!

Rhonda is also Co-Publisher and Editor of "The Gaited Horse", a national magazine covering all breeds of gaited horses. She lives in Washington with her children, Lance and Kailah, and her new husband Daymond and his daughter, Sarah.