Re: Groundhogs

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Kate,

My mild-mannered sister in law finally got so fed up with groundhogs after a 
couple of summers of destruction, she mustered up enough courage to trap and 
drown the beasts. Her last straw was when a whistle-pig stared her down as 
she was chasing it with a broom and kept eating the transplants that she had 
so carefully nurtured for weeks in the house. And that was inside the garden 
area that she had carefully fenced, digging down so that they couldn't dig 
under the fence and leaving it floppy on top so that supposedly the beasts 
couldn't climb over. The fence had worked the first few years, but they're 
smart rascals.

Seems to me that the late Ruth Stout finally lost it over groundhogs, too.

daryl

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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