Re: Groundhogs

**K*@aol.com**

Please don't tell me that! I have had a groundhog - he left some footprints 
 but not enough to declare who he was - he ate the bean seeds, he has 
uproots  young carrots and this past week dug enormous holes in my raised beds 
uprooting  potatoes and tomatoes along the way and burying still-growing 
lettuce. Today -  he actually sat there looking at me so that I could make a 
positive id - in the  middle of the afternoon! I have spread Messina deterrent 
and covered the new  bean seeds with netting (I brought a full bolt on sale 
for spring brides). I am  sincerely hoping that he finds somewhere else to 
get easy food because the next  round of defense is a fence - maybe with barbs 
on it!

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In a message dated 6/18/2012 6:29:29 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
dcamp911@gmail.com writes:

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.

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