[Market-farming] ground hogs

Shawnee Flowerfarmer farmingflowers at hotmail.com
Fri Apr 4 23:24:16 EDT 2008


Now this sounds like a historically accurate idea.  I am betting that there are a few exciting details to be worked out through "knock him in the head with something".  I will definitely take this suggestion to the volunteer meeting on Sunday and see who's interested in a new banjo head.  Someone will be, I'm sure.  I could use better shoe strings myself.
 
We have live-trapped, and caught a few.  Not all.  I do need to thin the Jerusalem artichokes and may put them on the compost pile to attract the monster away from the garden.  I have also coated melons, pumpkins, gourds with hot pepper sauce.  Groundhog likes tabasco and habanero apparently.
 
It is still perplexing to me that I never have this problem on an 11 acre mixed vegetable farm, but struggle on a project where every pumpkin is essential to next year's budget.   Thanks everybody for the suggestions.  I wish my country-as-a-turnip-green grandfather was around to help.  He'd probably have those critters braising in bacon grease by now.
 
Shawnee, zone 5, outwitted by a rodent


From: wizard1 at ctsbroadband.comTo: market-farming at lists.ibiblio.orgDate: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 21:49:15 -0400Subject: Re: [Market-farming] ground hogs



Cut a green sapling and trim the end where there is a stub of a limb near the tip end. push this down the hole till you encounter the ground hog and start twisting. the limb stub will twist into the fur on the ground hog and you can pull him out of the hole and knock him in the head with something . Skin it out and clean it and cut it up  boil through a couple of waters to get rid of the strong smelling grease then batter it and bake it in the oven. Coat the flesh side of the hide with fairly wet hard wood ashes and let it soak for 3 or 4 days  this will loosen the hair folicles. slip out the hair and nail the hide up on a board or the side of a shed and let it dry for several days. a well tanned ground hog hide makes a good banjo head or failng that cut it into strips for shoe strings. Its makes good tough shoe strings 
 
 
Mark in KY 
[Mark Abner] 
 
 
 
 
 
 -----Original Message-----From: market-farming-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Shawnee FlowerfarmerSent: Friday, April 04, 2008 9:05 PMTo: Market FarmingSubject: Re: [Market-farming] ground hogs


 To let them eat into your profits for lack of how to handle the problem isn't to bright....good luck. Franklin
 
You are quite correct in this comment sir, which is exactly why I am looking for suggestions on the list serve.  Perhaps I will be brighter later.
 
ps-I did say that this project is inside a county forest preserve, so although I am not against shooting the rodents, the park district frowns on guns.

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