[NAFEX] nafex Digest, Vol 65, Issue 62 WOODCHUCKS

Tim Inman Tim at historicinteriors.com
Mon Jun 30 11:15:37 EDT 2008


When we lived in Wisconsin, I raised some prize-winning cabbages one year. 
In the fall, just as they were ready to harvest, the woodchucks got to them 
first.  Each morning it looked like the 'Chucks' had been in a pie-eating 
contest over my cabbages.  They went down on them head-first and all the way 
to the root.  Our Wisconsin DNR guy suggested dog hair as a repellant.  As 
it happened, there was a dog groomer next to our offices, so I had her save 
dog hair clippings for me all winter.  Next spring, I spread it in the 
cabbage rows and POW!  No more woodchucks in my cabbages.  It actually 
lasted all season long - and even though she had washed the dogs before she 
clipped them.  I did some tilling, too.  There was woodchuck 'evidence' all 
around my garden and my neighbors, but not in my cabbage rows.  So, there's 
one man's report of his unscientific experience.  I'd highly recommend dog 
hair - maybe even still attached to the dog!

Tim Inman
Randolph (the Feral Cat Empire) Iowa

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>   1. The war against woodchucks (Joe and Ellen Hecksel)
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>   3. petunia question (Jerrydana5 at aol.com)
>   4. Japanese Beetles - South West PA (John S)
>   5. Re: The war against woodchucks (Lucky.Pittman at murraystate.edu)
>   6. Re: petunia question (Lon J. Rombough)
>   7. membership/Pomona (Deb S)
>   8. Re: The war against woodchucks (mangodance)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:42:22 -0400
> From: Joe and Ellen Hecksel <jhecksel at voyager.net>
> Subject: [NAFEX] The war against woodchucks
> To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex at lists.ibiblio.org>
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> Hello all:
>
> So far, no Japanese Beetles.
>
> However, I am suffering from a plague of woodchucks!
>
> They stripped the mulberry trees of their leaves.  Few things are as sad
> as seeing a promising graft stripped of leaves, and even worse, broken 
> off.
>
> We were on vacation for 8 days.  We visited New Orleans (great rates on
> rooms this time of year for some reason) and drove home via Mississippi,
> Alabama, Ga, Tennessee, Kentucky and Ohio.
>
> Half the garden was flattened.  The Hubbard squash was reduced to leaf
> stems.  War was declared.
>
> Mr. Internet was not much help.  "First" all the internet experts
> agreed, "start your control efforts in April or May at the latest."  Drat!
>
> I called my neighbor Kirk who is an avid trapper.  He loaned me 6
> Conibear traps.  I already had two 160 Conibears.  They are all deployed.
>
> There are a few places that are not conducive to Conibear traps.  We
> have a new puppy so I don't want to use them close to the house.  Also,
> there are a few holes that are in HUGE Poison Ivy patches.  So the one
> live trap will also get a work-out.
>
> Any advice on bait?
>
> One neighbor lady claims that you can catch ANYTHING using marshmallows.
>  They certainly are cheap and delightful to munch on if you need
> sustenance during the arduous task of lugging the enormous live trap
> around.  Mr Internet said to use the leaves of the plant they were
> chowing down on.  Too late to use squash leaves.  Other suggestions were
> apples or carrots.  One source said to pre-bait the area to get them
> hooked on those delicacies.  That makes sense to me.
>
> Any advice will be much appreciated.  The quicker I can put a big dent
> in their population the better my plants will recover.
>
> -Joe
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:02:33 -0400
> From: Karen Kellogg <garuda2 at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] The war against woodchucks
> To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex at lists.ibiblio.org>
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> I think your best bet is to let that puppy grow up REAL quick!
>
> I have hordes of woodchucks, and have read a lot--- I'd use cabbage
> or other brassicas in the trap.
> (None have ever gone into my live trap) .
>
> I am seriously thinking about getting a dog.  But then I have to put
> in one of those underground electric dog fences.
>
> Can't win.
>
> I actually saw a trio of them 'frolicing'  in my yard a while back.
> Cute, but i still hate them.
>
> Karen
> in NW CT
>
> On Jun 28, 2008, at 6:42 PM, Joe and Ellen Hecksel wrote:
>
>> Hello all:
>>
>> So far, no Japanese Beetles.
>>
>> However, I am suffering from a plague of woodchucks!
>>
>>
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:09:24 EDT
> From: Jerrydana5 at aol.com
> Subject: [NAFEX] petunia question
> To: nafex at lists.ibiblio.org
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> OK--my wave petunias I started from scratch are doing great.  My  question
> is, do I still have to deadhead the blooms?  I thought somewhere I  had 
> read you
> didn't have to deadhead wave petunias.  jerry in souther  indiana
>
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> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:43:52 -0700 (PDT)
> From: John S <swim_at_svc at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [NAFEX] Japanese Beetles - South West PA
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> Tuesday zero, Wednesday I counted 3, Thursday 6, Friday killed about 200.? 
> Going after Juneberry and kiwi today, but most of them were after the 
> Autumn olives.? Late in emerging, but apparently trying to make up for it.
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> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:49:52 -0500
> From: "Lucky.Pittman at murraystate.edu" <Lucky.Pittman at murraystate.edu>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] The war against woodchucks
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> Marksmanship practice with a .22 loaded with LR
> hollow-point bullets.
> Or, an even higher-powered varmint rifle.  Doc L
> would have made an appropriate recommendation.
>
> I'm still gunning for the one living in the brushpile
> in the ditch by the pond - guess I need to put a
> scope on my .22 or step up and smack him with the
> .308; just seems like a bit of overkill.
>
> Lucky
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:15:20 -0700
> From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom at hevanet.com>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] petunia question
> To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex at lists.ibiblio.org>
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> Had two big (3 gallon plus) hanging pots with Wave petunias in them
> last year and didn't deadhead them, and they kept going until frost.
> In fact, the plants survived the winter,  grew out again and right now
> they are covered with blooms.  The plants died back to the main stems,
> but the thickest parts came through and sprouted vigorously once the
> weather warmed.  They are actually better looking than plants started
> from seed.
> -Lon Rombough
> Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at
> http://www.bunchgrapes.com  Winner of the Garden Writers Association
> "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.
> For even more grape lessons, go to  http://www.grapeschool.com
> For all other things grape,   http://www.vitisearch.com
> A video about The Grape Grower :
> http://cookingupastory.com/index.php/2008/04/18/the-grape-grower/
> On Jun 28, 2008, at 7:09 PM, Jerrydana5 at aol.com wrote:
>
>
> OK--my wave petunias I started from scratch are doing great.? My
> question is, do I still have to deadhead the blooms?? I thought
> somewhere I had read you didn't have to deadhead wave petunias.? jerry
> in souther indiana
>
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> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:54:07 -0400
> From: "Deb S" <debs913 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [NAFEX] membership/Pomona
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> I joined NAFEX awhile ago (just before the announcement that you could 
> join
> online).  I haven't received a Pomona yet...anyone know if one has been
> published recently?  Thanks.
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> Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:12:05 -0400
> From: mangodance <bmn at iglou.com>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] The war against woodchucks
> To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex at lists.ibiblio.org>
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> Joe and Ellen Hecksel wrote:
>> There are a few places that are not conducive to Conibear traps.  We
>> have a new puppy so I don't want to use them close to the house.  Also,
>> there are a few holes that are in HUGE Poison Ivy patches.  So the one
>> live trap will also get a work-out.
>
> You'll want to watch your puppy as well.  I've both seen and heard about
> dogs going after groundhogs all the way into the burrow and faring badly
> as a groundhog will defend a burrow.  Worst one was at a dog event where
> a dog got its jugular bitten and died within seconds.  Others required
> surgery on paws and heads.
>
>
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