Question
HOw do I keep squirels from digging in my yard and flower beds.

Answer
Hi Gerry;
Ceyenne pepper, or any hot peppers will repel squirrels and other mamals that breathe through their noses.
It irritates their noses just like it would yours, to smell it.
Those hot pepper seeds you see in the shakers at pizza resturaunuts in your bird feeder will keep squirrels out, but won;t affect the birds.
You can sprinkle ceyenne pepper or those pepper seeds over your yard, or make a garlic pepper and spray it around.
   Garlic pepper tea:
1 or 2 HOT dried chili peppers or other VERY HOT peppers, and
1 whole large bulb of garlic ( not just a few cloves), in a blender with about
1 qt. of water.
Whirr it until it is as liquid as you can get it.
Strain through cheese cloth to get all the tiny particles out that could clog your garden sprayer.
Mix 1 cup of this tea oer gallon of water, and spray all over your yard.
They will dig to hide their nuts. That is mainly how all those little pecan trees, that give me so much troubkle, get into my yard.
They will also dig up lily bulbs and eat them.
Iris bulbs appear to be safe because they are toxic, but lilies are too tempting.
When you plant lily bulbs, put a wire cage around them, so the squirrels can't dig through to get them. It had to be pretty sturdy wire. Soaking them in water with chili pepper ( maybe hot sauce) in it should penetrate the bulbs and repel the squirels.
I don't know if there are other bulbs ( like amarillis etc) that they go after.
Charlotte