Try electric fencing. It is cheap and works well and is as humane as you can get.

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Mike

Here is a link that might be useful: KENCOVE ELECTRIC NETTING

PM me and let me know how many rattlesnakes you want? lol

Rubber rattlesnacks would work, get them at the dollar store.

Hmmm, I still have some green berries left, will have to look for rubber snakes. I do have a garter snake who lives in the garden but doesn't seem to bother the squirrels.

Electric netting looks interesting - 28" tall and open at the top good enough? I'm assuming squirrels can't jump that high. I'm also going to build a chicken run (in my spare time LOL) and have the 4ft tall 23 mesh and some poultry wire (my uncle said put UNDER the run as well as over top to keep predators from digging). Electric might work there too? Except I would think you'd still need top (for hawks) and bottom (for foxes digging)...

No one thinks I need to move the bed and try to bury the wire to keep the rodents out?

Here's another idea for you.
I made what looks like a small tunnel, plastic covered with 6mil greenhouse plastic, roll up sides, with a support across the top to hold the roll up, which is weighted with wood. Roll it up in cold weather, half up for shade on hot days, rolled up fully to gather any rain.
This allows me to staple green garden netting over the whole thing, which is easily lifted to allow picking.
I was picking strawberries almost 1 month before the local self pick.
Photos available on request.
PS. I also have a larger version for blueberries, mainly to keep the rabbits out, but with the same effects as strawberries.

Yes, please photos. I have 1" mesh bird netting over wire hoops, but just using pegs and rocks to hold the edges down and the squirrels (and chipmunks? Had 1 earlier, he got caught in netting and hung himself a couple of weeks ago) just go under.

So if you have a better way of securing the edges and ends a photo would help. That's why I was thinking partially-buried chicken wire along each side was a good idea. Just can't do it in current location.

Here is a photo of my idea to keep the vermin out of beds, plus some control over climate.
This shows the side screen rolled up for rain gathering, plus the netting for vermin control.
Just a point. If you keep them out to prevent any feeding early in the season, then they will ignore the beds completely. We have birds, chipmunks and lots of squirrels, but no damage.

Second photo of my ideas.
Showing the greenhouse film rolled down and the weight system to prevent it blowing around.

The third photo, with the screen down in the shade position, for when the scorch comes on.

Finally a large version to cover the blueberries, again keeps the nasties out.
Pity we cannot load more than one photo, without a great deal of problems.

A little more involved than my wire hoops and netting - I don't know that I'd bother with plastic - maybe row cover.

I can see wood sides - you say you staple the netting? To the sides? Or do you mean landscape staples to the earth? How do you remove the netting to pick and then get it secure again? That's the problem I'm having.

Separate (permanent?) ends looks more secure than just gathering the netting and pegging it down as I've done.

Thanks for the pix

Squirrels can be persistent. Consider incorporating them into your diet. In the south they make squirrel dumplings or squirrel gravy with biscuits. Sorry I cant help. Good luck, Bill

hehe: Squirrel Launcher