-=> Quoting Jahmas to Joe Siegler <=-

 Ja> Some folks are brewing a tea of hot pepper sauce to repel squirrels
 Ja> from bird seed. The birds don't care but the squirrels hate it. If you
 Ja> grow hot peppers in your garden ( I do since I dry them ), dry the
 Ja> peppers out and then heat them up in a baking sheet in the oven 325
 Ja> degrees for like 5 min. Roll the peppers with a rolling pin in a zip
 Ja> lock bag and then put the grounds in a coffee percolator. Recycle the
 Ja> water through the pepper grinds until you have a thick tea. Here you
 Ja> have a natural repellant that most domestic animals will find
 Ja> offensive. Makes a nice Tabasco substitute for chile recipes too :) 

Hi Jim,

Do you actually put the tea mixture in the seed?  This sounds like a
good trick to get rid of some of the squirrels that are constantly
annoying the birds around here.  We don't grow the peppers, but buying a
few to try it out sounds good to me.  Thanks.
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