Re: Groundhogs

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From: CobraHead  
Subject: Re: [GWL] Groundhogs 

>You would not like groundhogs in your garden.  However, if you send me five
>rats, I'll send you five groundhogs.  

Hell, Noel, I'll take the five rats and send just one groundhog. You showed the good grace not to promote CobraHead in this post, but I will say that it is very effective for throwing at woodchucks.

Though you showed good manners in not promoting your product, I am not nearly so well behaved. Since it is right on point, I submit below a short bit from the section of my book that deals with woodchucks and other critters in the garden:

    I have a woodchuck. My neighbor has named him. Harry. Or maybe it's Hairy.

    Now, I like animals. You can't walk through our house without tripping over cats or rabbits or something my wife insists is a dog, but I think is really some kind of marmot. I do not, however, like woodchucks in my garden.

    Here's what I did this spring. I set out the kohlrabi and cauliflower and broccoli and put bottomless plastic jugs over all the transplants. I put the Chinese cabbage and lettuce under plastic tunnels. I spread Reemay â floating row         cover â over my onion seedlings and pegged it down securely.

    Here's what Harry did. He knocked the jugs off and ate all the kohlrabi and cauliflower and broccoli. He crawled under the plastic tunnels and ate the lettuce and Chinese cabbage. Fortunately he doesn't like onions. But he does     like Reemay. He pulled all the pegs and dragged an entire 4 X 8 foot sheet into his burrow. It must be comfy.

Duane Campbell
Syndicated garden columnist
Author: Best of Green Space; 30 Years of Composted Columns 

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