protecting melons from animals?
daninthedirt (USDA 9a, HZ9, CentTX, Sunset z30, Cfa)
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Protecting melon from critters
Comments (6)do you have ground hogs(wood chucks) up there? if you do, those melons are history. get a live trap and keep it baited with fresh ripe fruit of some sort. they'll go for the ripe fruit 1st. I've already dealt with a few of them this year. also... i've got a new invader i havent identified yet. leaves different chew marks than the ground hogs did. i was guessing a possum or something but then i found a big box turtle out there. not sure if he was doing the damage or not....See MoreProtecting Squash from Critters
Comments (4)Update: Last night as I was watering my squash I thought I saw something moving: that something was a groundhog!! It had attempted to get my largest butternut and had already eaten the leaves and young fruit of one cucumber bush. I switched the hose to 'jet' and let him have it. It went leaping across the grass and out of the yard through a hole which has been left open in the east fence because of a tree. I don't think I can close it but are ground hogs smart? Will he realize that he is not welcome and stay away? There are lots of things for him to eat like fallen apples and other berries. UUGGHH!!...See MoreMelon field pest protection
Comments (1)Some leaves on plants in the melon family are covered with hairs that make eating them somewhat unpleasant so deer and rabbits usually won't eat them unless food is scarce. However that does not seem to stop woodchucks. My experience is the Raccoons will wait for fruit. Fencing to keep deer out needs to be relatively high, they can easily step over anything less then about 3 feet high and can jump over fences 6 feet high. Rabbits, Raccoons, Woodchucks, Chipmunks, can burrow under fencing unless it goes into the ground about a foot and it does help to extend that outwards, in a reversed L, about a foot. I find that fencing, 4 feet tall, placed less then 5 feet apart seems to discourage deer quite well....See MoreHow to protect my garden from Mole animal?
Comments (8)If you mean gophers...they can be an on-going issue depending on where you live. We fight them constantly where I am. The easiest way to deal with them is by trapping them. I've tried most of the major types of gopher traps, but the only traps I've found to work consistently are these (I know they say they are for moles, but they are the perfect size for the pocket gophers we have here in southern CA). If you are against killing them for whatever reason, the only other option you have is to try to gopher-proof your garden as best as possible. You can buy/make wire baskets for your bigger plants, put the root ball into the basket when you plant, keep a few inches of the wire above ground so they don't climb over. We also have several large raised beds with hardware cloth (wire mesh) stapled to the bottoms so they can't get into the soil area for our vegetable gardens....See Morevgkg Z-7 Va
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