Re: Groundhog
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Groundhog
- From: "* D* A* <t*@roanoke.infi.net>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 09:16:23 -0400 (EDT)
Two Words Lub, Electric Fence.
Once they get a taste of that, they hit the damn road!
I've been thru the exact thing you're going thru now. With deer as well.
Two rows of wire, one strung at ground level, and one about three feet up
will do the trick.
Tim
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At 09:09 PM 8/14/98 EDT, you wrote:
>Once upon a time I had a garden. Then Mr. Groundhog came and ate it all. All
>the new growth on my vines and then my pumpkins too. From first hand
>experience I can tell you that if your vines are pruned too much your pumpkins
>will stop growing. He ate my Anderen 977 and my own cross between the 1006 and
>1061. I had fence up. I put wire under the ground. I had hav-a-heart traps
>with apples in them. Nothing worked. Tonight I went to my garden and there was
>a new hole dug way down under the wire and around the large stones. More vine
>and a few small pumpkins had been eaten. I patched up the hole with a really
>heavy stone. My neighbor came over. Low and behold! The groundhog was trapped
>inside the garden. He had been in there all along. My neighbor is a hunter.
>The groundhog who destroyed my garden this year will not be eating any more
>pumpkin. This groundhog was the toughest thing I have been up against. I have
>new respect for groundhogs and their ability to penetrate almost all defences.
>I will spend a lot of time this fall beefing up my outer perimeter. This guy
>had a taste of pumpkin. He was focused and nearly invincible. He ate my garden
>for half of July and the first half of August. I hope I never run up against
>another like him.
>
>Marv in Altoona PA
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