Squirrels digging up lawn

I was recommended to use Chili powder, the hot stuff, on my tulip pots to stop the squirrels digging up my bulbs.

I've just googled the problem and found an article "How to keep squirrels out of your garden" on www.rspca.org.uk
Although it's ok to use a humane trap apparently it's now illegal to release the blighters elsewhere without a licence and they should be humanely killed. It sounds like an expensive exercise if professional help is needed.

nanna8

Swap you for our pesky possums that crash around after dark, make disgusting noises and eat every single vegetable I plant. They even get under the nets designed to keep them off. Beasties!

You have my sympathy. The first time I saw a possum looking in my window in the dark (in NZ) I froze in horror.
Hideous looking creatures. ?

I'm not bothered bout my lawn. Grey squirrels have almost extirpated my crocosmia/montbretia with the exception of the variety lucifer which must taste different. They have tunnelled under my Begonias to get at bulbs underneath, they throw mounds of earth onto my gravel, litter the paths, table, chairs and waterfall with the stems and outer skin of the crocosmia and if they manage to get into my attic they could do thousands of pounds worth of damage and even cause a fire if they chew through the electrical cables.

Squirrels are a menace which is why they can be treated as vermin and killed.
I simply relocate them. They're lucky.

Swap you for our pesky possums that crash around after dark, make disgusting noises and eat every single vegetable I plant. They even get under the nets designed to keep them off. Beasties!

Why is the lawn so important?
Surely they will stop when they have finished "storing"?

Make that 4.

I have rehomed 3 squirrels in the last couple of weeks as they had dug up all my crocosmia/montbretia (except the variety lucifer) and devoured them.
You can buy a humane trap and follow my example. (Though I have to admit I worry about whether they have found their friends who were released at the same spot.)

I used to love them! I know they are digging to plant their acorns, etc. It is just such a mess, holes all over. Doesn't help to have 2 massive oak trees at the back of us!

They aren’t digging , bless them, they are probably planting.
If your garden is like mine I will have about 20 or 30 new Walnut trees growing in the lawn, flower pots, shingle driveway.
If you rummage under the holes you might find what they are planting or possibly another squirrel has found some nuts planted last year and is retrieving them?
Don’t you just love them? ?