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Well you know last week was Easter and everybody got all excited about the Easter bunny bringing eggs, but I got excited when I was out looking in my Swiss chard. Instead of seeing leaves of Swiss chard, I saw ears poking up looking around.

They sure can eat a garden pretty quick, rabbits and squirrels and things like that. Of course squirrels are really horrendous on all sorts of fruits and things like that we have. They're so cute and multiply so fast, people wonder what you can do with them. Of course you can't shoot them in the city limits because people are doing a drive-by shooting out in your garden.

Probably the best and only way is to trap them. I have a trap here that costs about $30, which seems to be a lot, but if you can get 3-4 stews out of it, you can pay for that $30 trap and have the neighbors over for some good ol' squirrel stew. Or you can do what I do and release them into the wild because these traps don't hurt them. So you can just trap them and release them into the wild or into your neighbors yard.

You have to trap these rabbits and squirrels or put up some sort of protective barrier such as the EARTH-KIND Grow Web barrier around the plant to protect it from the animals getting in there because they can eat you out of house and home.

If you have kid and a bad dog, that might keep them out of there for a little while, but I don't know, but that might make the meat tough if you do that.

This is Jerry Parson Vegetable Specialist and rodent exterminator with the Texas Agriculture Extension Service, the Weekend Gardener.