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[Ginda Fisher <ginda@concentric.net>]

My father was able to keep his groundhogs at bay for several years with 
an electric fence, but not this year.  I'm not sure how they (it?) got 
in - maybe it climbed the neighbor's tree and jumped, or maybe it was 
just so hungry it went over the hot wire.  But it only takes a groundhog 
one night in the garden to wipe out a crop.  All his beans, peas, cukes, 
squash, marigolds, broccoli, lettuce, . . pretty much everything but the 
tomatoes and eggplants.  After fighting the beast for years (maintaining 
the fence is not trivial) he's thinking about giving up gardening 
altogether.

I don't think he plans to kill it only because he figures another will 
just take its place.  But he's certainly talked about wanting to kill it 
often enough.

Ginda

On Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at 08:31 AM, Bruce Hansen wrote:

> Hey:
>
> All of this discussion about killing animals, so called varmits, red 
> misting
> them, poisoning them, lock and load, is interesting. Very male and 
> macho. I
> take my position from my neighbor who lives down river from me. He is a 
> big
> fellow with steely gray eyes, many rifles and several hand guns. He has
> killed much bigger prey than ground hogs Yet for control of ground hogs 
> and
> raccoons he uses electric fence. It is cheap and effective. To protect 
> trees
> he uses tree tubes, again cheap and effective. I use his methods, they 
> work.
>
> > From my experience, animal hunters are a far bigger problem to me than 
> > these
> so-called varmits. If one can't give life, one should, perhaps, not be 
> so
> anxious to take it away. On another note, perhaps the real problem is
> humans. They breed too much. There are too many of them!
>
> Bruce
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nafex-admin@lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:nafex-admin@lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Mark Garrison
> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 10:02 PM
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Groundhogs
>
>
> Years ago in West Virginia I looked out my bedroom window early one 
> morning
> and there was a groundhog up in the peach tree eating away.  His/her 
> family
> had already decimated the vegetable garden.  My remedy was lead 
> poisoning,
> but I could never eliminate all the varmints.
>
> Mark Garrison, RI
>
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