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I've also heard that sprinkling cayenne pepper on top of the soil works as a good deterrent.

Very cool. Plus you're adding calcium to the soil!

Maybe the picture is a clue, but for the record, that isn't an oyster ;)

I thought you were talking about light bulbs to start with, and my brain was really struggling with the idea of squirrels (that's skwi-rels, not skwerls) eating light bulbs.

We keep the squirrels out by interspersing our tulips with lots of hyacinth bulbs. They really hate the hyacinths for some reason and give them a wide berth.

I plant my bulbs, put down chickenwire, more dirt on top to cover wire...voila! They can't reach the bulbs

I put down chicken wire on top of the bulb area and held it down with rocks. So far so good!

Good morning -

You know, I have not yet tried this, but I have had a bit of experience with both clamshells and oyster shells and I think morebo75 has a very good point. In remembering oyster shells, I think they are created a bit differently and would break into sharper and thinner pieces when crushed. Since the point is that the animals don't like the sharp bits, my money is on oyster shells - which the author says is extremely effective.

Thank you for the other suggestions!