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- From: Shawnee Flowerfarmer <farmingflowers AT hotmail.com>
- To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Controlling groundhogs
- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 22:19:11 -0500
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.
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[Market-farming] Re Controling groundhogs (was controling quackgrass organically?),
pech, 04/02/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Controlling groundhogs,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 04/02/2008
- [Market-farming] tomato types, Andrew R. King, 04/03/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Controlling groundhogs,
Richard Robinson, 04/03/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Controlling groundhogs, Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 04/03/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Controlling groundhogs, breck, 04/03/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Controlling groundhogs,
Shawnee Flowerfarmer, 04/02/2008
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