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12 - 15 pounds of OH NO!!!!!
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Re: 12 - 15 pounds of OH NO!!!!!
@martha wrote:Update - I hate to say this out loud, or write it, but so far, no varmints, and all I have done is sprinkle an insufficient amount of Repels All stinky stuff around about 1/3 of the perimeter of my garden area.
Signed,but


43 years a gardener and going strong with SFG.
http://squarefoot.creatingforum.com/t3574-the-end-of-july-7-weeks-until-frost
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. ~ Henry David Thoreau
http://squarefoot.creatingforum.com/t1306-other-gardening-books
camprn
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Re: 12 - 15 pounds of OH NO!!!!!
Hopefully he was just walking through on his way elsewhere and didn't catch a whiff of the goodies in your garden. I am giving you a whispered "congratulations" so it doesn't hear and come back to see what he missed, lol!
From Camprns article: "Woodchucks or groundhogs can remove 700 pounds of soil to complete a 20 to 25-foot-long burrow with multiple chambers which pose a serious threat to agricultural and residential developments by damaging farm machinery and undermining building foundations."
Can you believe such a thing! It also said they have great hearing so it is a good thing I whispered Martha's congratulations to her, lol!
From Camprns article: "Woodchucks or groundhogs can remove 700 pounds of soil to complete a 20 to 25-foot-long burrow with multiple chambers which pose a serious threat to agricultural and residential developments by damaging farm machinery and undermining building foundations."
Can you believe such a thing! It also said they have great hearing so it is a good thing I whispered Martha's congratulations to her, lol!
Triciasgarden-
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Re: 12 - 15 pounds of OH NO!!!!!
Yes, Tricia, thank you for sensitivity. Whispers only, until I make it safely to the first frost!
martha-
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Re: 12 - 15 pounds of OH NO!!!!!
as someone pointed out to me last year when I aired the same complaint about those $&(#^&$*( groundhogs, Joy of Cooking has a good recipe and groundhogs are reputed to taste good. I second the idea of a tall fence around the garden. Mine is only 3' and the *((*$&*(er got in to eat the tops of the butternut squash plants. There are babies growing so I'm hoping he'll/she'll/it'll leave some for me. Last year, it ate ALL my pumpkins.
nycquilter- Posts : 128
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Re: 12 - 15 pounds of OH NO!!!!!
We just found a hole/tunnel along the front foundation of our yard among the weigela bushes! One of our neighbors kindly lent us a groundhog trap and told us to bait with apples/peanut butter.
I can't believe the dirt, rocks, etc. this critter has moved and how large it is!!
I can't believe the dirt, rocks, etc. this critter has moved and how large it is!!

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Re: 12 - 15 pounds of OH NO!!!!!
Wow, Dunkinjean, good luck!
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