[Market-farming] Controlling groundhogs
Shawnee Flowerfarmer
farmingflowers at hotmail.com
Wed Apr 2 23:19:11 EDT 2008
Well, I will certainly try this idea. I think that I have tried everything else. Never had such a problem with groundhogs until the last two seasons. I have always objected to their knee-crunching holes, but in 2006, the family gnawed every gourd in the patch. In 2007, they chewed each precious marketable pumpkin and watermelon. A good dog would help of course, but this acreage is located in a forest preserve, and all the dogs are on leashes attached to people running by. The garden must be historically accurate to 1840-50 which would include using a gun, but I don't own one. I have threatened laser beams to save the harvest, but other people think that I lack perspective. (Plus, I don't actually have a laser beam either.)
So, at the start of 2008, I am fraught. The groundhogs are costing us a lot of money and never mind the way my knee wrenches if I stumble into one of their holes. Ex-lax is cheap compared to the profit the rodents are munching......
Shawnee, zone 5 and losing contact with government nonsense while the natural world starts to bedevil me.
Hi Shawnee.....Not too scientific but, have you tried ex-lax for your groundhog troubles? Put a couple of squares by the hole and they "think" somethings wrong with the food in the area and move on... That's the theory I heard and I know someone who has had success with it. Only one, but it's the only person I know who tried it.
Have Fun
Dave z6a
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