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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Chipmunks in the Garden?!

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Having issues with chipmunks? Try these tips to get rid of these pesky buggers!

Keep Growing,

Kevin

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0:00.0

What's going on everyone? Welcome back to the show. We are back on the regularly scheduled episodes where it's just me on the podcast

0:07.4

So if you miss some of the guests, I'm sorry. You're stuck with me at least for now. I've got some more guest episodes coming up though.

0:14.3

Today's episode we're talking about chipmunk control in the garden. Now chipmunk, squirrels, they can be really annoying.

0:23.2

And right now in my front yard, I have Locwats.

0:26.2

I have a Locwatt tree that came with the property

0:28.4

that's in full fruiting right now.

0:30.3

And if there's one thing that these little chippies like, it's these freaking loquots.

0:35.2

It is really annoying because I love them as a fruit.

0:38.1

They're one of my favorite fruits, but looks like the squirrels and chipmunks love them a little more.

0:44.0

Quite annoying.

0:45.0

So how do we get rid of chipmunks in the garden?

0:47.5

And this question comes from my friend Michael.

0:50.5

So hey Michael, thanks for sending in some questions.

0:53.1

Hopefully this is helpful for you, my friend.

0:55.1

Okay, first method.

0:58.0

Traps are a decent way to get rid of them.

1:01.3

So they're pretty small. You can actually use the same sort of traps that you would use for rats.

1:07.0

I would recommend not using the kill traps just because if you're going to kill something and not eat it or use it in some way to me that's kind of

1:15.5

like a waste of life and so what I would do is I would get the live traps and what

1:19.6

that does is it will lure them in and then as soon as they walk in they step on a little

1:24.1

platform that then locks them in and then what you can do is you can walk them out

1:27.4

to maybe a section of the canyon somewhere that's far enough away that they're

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