How to Keep Raccoons Away From Orange Trees

Safely keep raccoons away from your fruit trees.

Raccoons are pesky scavengers that tear into your trash and spread it around the yard and eat the fruit from your trees in the middle of the night. Keeping raccoons out of your yard is almost impossible, but keeping them out of your citrus trees is a task that can be done today.

Things You'll Need

• Floodlights
• Cucumber plants
• Tree cast
• Ammonia

Instructions

1. Set up a floodlight near your citrus tree with a motion detector attached. Raccoons are nocturnal, so they avoid bright lights. Placing a flood light near your citrus trees may keep raccoons away in more rural areas, where raccoons are more skittish.

2. Plant cucumber plants around the bottom of your citrus tree. Raccoons hate the smell and texture of cucumber plants, so they will not cross over a line of cucumbers, not even to get juicy citrus fruits from your tree.

3. Wrap the trunk of your tree in a tree cast, and apply ammonia to the cast. Raccoons hate the smell of ammonia, so they will not attempt to climb the tree if the base of the tree smells like ammonia. The ammonia will not affect your tree at all as long as the ammonia is applied to a tree cast, not the tree itself.

References

• Acme How To: How to Keep Raccoons Out of Your Yard