I don't have a problem with squirrels in my gardens, but rabbits and woodchucks are another story. I generally leave the critters around my house alone, but when they start eating my vegetables, I start eating them with my vegetables. :D
We don't have squirrels around here like we used to before a lot of the farms went under.
There were four working dairy farms within a mile of my house not too many years ago, and they planted a lot of corn. Seems like there were two squirrels in every tree back then.
Bob