RE: Anyone out there?(groundhogs)


Hi Sue:

I suspect that you already know this, but the electric fence is really
quite safe.  It is very uncomfortable, that is for sure! The voltage is
high, but the low current flow makes it harmless (to most people--I'm sure
the pacemaker population has to be more careful).

I am not trying to undermine the above paragraph, but, when I was in high
school my mother asked me to get a tomato from the garden for dinner.  I
was not wearing shoes and it had just rained, so I was well
grounded(electrically--that is).  I recall reaching to unhook the electric
fence, and then I woke up on lying on the ground.  apparently, I was
shocked so badly that it actually knocked me out!

Buy a cattle fencer.  It will reduce your stress level,
Brad

> I realize now I should have buried the fence, but was being lazy.   Tonight
> I am going to go redo at least the one side of the garden.  They appear to
> have their burrow in a hill near my garden and always attacking from that
> side, so I will start there and see how effective I can be with this
> approach.   I went out yesterday to find my squash and cucumbers had been
> chomped off.  I told my husband I was going to hook up the current but he is
> afraid I will only succeed in electrocuting myself.  But based on Bill H's
> response, it may be my only hope. 
> 
> Thanks for the tips.  This is getting to be serious business.  At this rate
> my garden will be destroyed.
> 
> Sue (Central PA zone 6)
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Allan Day [SMTP:allan@crwys.demon.co.uk]
> > Sent:	Wednesday, June 16, 1999 2:49 AM
> > To:	'veggie-list@eskimo.com'
> > Subject:	RE: Anyone out there?(groundhogs)
> > 
> > On Mon 14 Jun, Smith, Sue wrote:
> > > I thought I might have deterred the groundhog family when I secured the
> > > bottom of my chicken wire fence with "garden staples".  I spotted a baby
> > > member of the family squeezing under the fence this weekend, before I
> > tacked
> > > it down.  This morning I went out to find "Mom" had dug a nice hole
> > under
> > > the fence and had managed to eat all my cabbage plants again.  I think I
> > > will try the lime, mothball approach next.  The beans that I replanted
> > are
> > > just starting to come up, so this could be war!  
> > > 
> > > Sue (PA zone 6)
> > When fitting up a wire barrier spread the bottom foot outwards and cover
> > with soil/turf to deter the burrowers, otherwise they will dig/push past
> > it.
> > Allan
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > Allan Day  Hereford  allan@crwys.demon.co.uk
> 

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Bradley D. Johnson			Center for Applied 
johnson@coastal.udel.edu		 Coastal Research
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