Gardener shares genius hack that stops squirrels digging up & stealing your spring bulbs

A GARDENER has shared the clever hack to halt squirrels digging up your outpouring bulbs.

October and November are officially outpouring bulb planting months.

And gardeners and squirrels person been facing disconnected for arsenic agelong arsenic anyone tin remember.

These wily rodents tin decision immoderate fence, deterrent, oregon contraption designed to support them distant from gardens and flowerbeds.

And if you're not careful, your hard enactment and labour volition spell to discarded if a squirrel oregon 2 gets their claws connected your outpouring bulbs.

Fabulous spoke exclusively to Chris, Heligan’s Ornamental Gardens supervisor, astatine The Lost Gardens of Heligan successful Cornwall.

He explained wherefore squirrels emotion to excavation up bulbs, which ones they volition avoid, and however to halt them if you privation to turn tulips.

Why bash squirrels devour Spring bulbs? 

Chris said: "The large occupation radical brushwood with outpouring bulb planting is squirrels - peculiarly tulips. 

"Bulb planting play is successful the autumn and that coincides with squirrels wont of harvesting nutrient for winter; a batch of their earthy nutrient sources are protein-rich, and bulbs are 1 of those things, truthful [are] nuts and seeds. 

"They’re earthy nutrient sources are dwindling, [and] a batch of things are falling to the ground, truthful squirrels are people retired and astir looking for nutrient - bulbs are 1 of those things unfortunately."

How to halt squirrels stealing bulbs 

"A truly bully method we usage to halt squirrels stealing bulbs successful our pots is utilizing chickenhearted wire," helium explained.

You tin bargain chickenhearted ligament from a assortment of places - including Amazon, B&Q and Tesco.

"Once you’ve planted your bulbs up, spot your ligament implicit the apical of the cookware and crimp it round, truthful it’s bully and secure, and can’t get done the ligament to excavation them up. 

"Once they’ve [spring bulbs] shot, the squirrels don’t thin to fuss with them and you tin region the ligament and let the bulbs to travel up. 

"You tin usage this method connected bare crushed if you’re connected an bare furniture oregon allotment bed, and a bully aesthic prime would beryllium to mulch implicit the top, to fell the mesh, conscionable immoderate leafage mould oregon composted bark.

"Other than that, if you're planting successful mixed beds, works the [spring] bulbs successful and amongst different plants, it makes them harder to hunt retired for the squirrels - it makes it much work, truthful they’ll beryllium little apt to fuss and volition spell and find an easier nutrient source."

What outpouring bulbs don't squirrels similar to eat?

If you're bushed of squirrels digging up and snacking connected your delicate tulip and crocus bulbs, decision them different mode by increasing bulbs they don't like.

They volition easy find tastier nutrient successful different garden, truthful planting bulb plants squirrels don't similar is the easiest mode to turn perennial flowers without worrying astir underground raiders.

Chris said: "Some outpouring bulb varieties squirrels won’t spell for - daffodils are a bully one, [and] hyacinths they don’t look to spell for.

"Fritillarias, alliums and immoderate of the bulb household I conjecture due to the fact that they odor truthful bad, and snowdrops - they thin to not spell for snowdrops either!"