Squirrels got my peaches

How do you keep squirrels from being so gready. I don't mind sharing but they don't know how. I have one pear tree, two peach trees and two loquat trees. They ate everthing before it could ripen! How can I stop them from doing this me? HELP!

i lose my fruit to the birds and squirrels every yr. It gets to be a pain spraying and tending for the animals to snatch everything.
12yrs here and i still havent gotten a sweet cherry!!!The year i netted the tree from the birds the dang squierrls got under and ate the cherries and left the pits just hanging there-i cried! A lot of work for nothing!!!!!!!

The apricot trees are loaded this yr!!! :) Ive got a brand new box of shells!-i mean shotgun shells not the ones you find at the beach!!!!

I've got the very same problems, only add neighborhood kids that use our property as a shortcut to a neighbor's basketball court! My DH also took to shooting the squirrels....but due to local restrictions on guns, he now uses "have-a-heart" traps and takes them a couple of miles away into the woods. We also have a couple of outdoor cats that are a deterrent.

As for the birds.....you could try netting your trees, but our apple trees are so large that that would be impossible!
Am going to try getting a couple of those inflatable owls for the sweet cherry and pie cherry trees. The birds always get ALL of the sweet cherries!

As for neighborhood kids....there isn't much that can be done about that, except ALWAYS stay at home! Our one and only Alberta Peach tree was picked clean while we spent a Sunday away visiting friends. I was going to allow the peaches just one more day on the tree, but when we went to pick them...they were gone! Every last one of the peaches!!!

I don't have much trouble with Squirrels taking my peaches... but, I've got enough peaches for everyone to share I guess. I do have to relate what happened to me last summer though.

My peach trees were LOADED, I mean, the peaches were huge, juicy, and the limbs were drooping, even after thinning out the fruit early in spring.

I have a couple of different varieties, and they mature at different times, thank goodness, but I was doing just like you were, waiting another day to pick the fruit from one particular tree.

Well..... I guess our bull had been watching that tree too, because he jumped the fence and ate every single peach he could reach, and I guess while reaching up, the weight from the bull managed to split my tree down the center. 2000 pound bull verses a dwarf peach tree, the bull is gonna win every single time. Needless to say, he got ALL the peaches!

I have Montmorency Cherries, and I also on a fluke one year bought Nanking Bush Cherries. They've been in the ground for 5 years now, and just produced a decent crop this year. The one thing I do notice with the Nanking is that the way the leaves are on the stalks, they kinda hide the cherries... might be something to consider if you really want cherries, and want to fool the birds. :-)