The tomatoes and zucchini are ripening in abundance — and the ground squirrels and other varmints know it. An assault by a colony of ground squirrels on the Our Garden experimental plot at the Contra ...

THE GROUND squirrels are coming! The ground squirrels are coming! I should have known strings (more like ropes) were attached when Home & Garden editor Joan Morris asked me to help her keep “some” ...

Q: I am sick of varmints getting my newly planted flowers and vegetables. Sometimes I don't know what gets them between the squirrels, deer, birds and rabbits. It's just not always practical for me to ...