@Garden10
What kind of hot pepper do you use? The culinary hot pepper flakes or ground up chilis?
Chipmunks are really a problem in my yard as well as the garden. I tried stopping up all the chipmunk holes but they dig new ones. I bought a commercial repellent but on reading the fine print in the manual it said not to use it near vegetables. So I poured some in the yard holes. I still see the pesky critters. In fact one hopped up the stairs to our porch yesterday.
