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Comments (150)Yes you are blessed. bye the way, what is rabbit fencing. what are the size of the holes. I know chicken wire is usually one inch holes. and rabbit hutches use like 1/4 inch or 1/2 inch wire mesh. but wire mesh is expensive for fencing. I have to be honest I have not seen new evidence of the groundhog these past couple of days. But with holes in the yard they can not be far off. I did see at least 2 different ones in the garden previous. a big one and a little one. so they are around. just not chomping hard on the garden. to annie on the salt. I would think it better to bind up the salt into a brick or solid. Now farm stores sell salt blocks. getting some bacon fat and adding salt would bind it into a fat blob and at least hold the salt together. or soaking into a sponge. Kosher salt would have a few big chunks and you might filter out a few big chunks. a tiny moisture might help them bind together. but I would not just pour small granule table salt down a hole. it seems to me it will disappate some. besides you really dont want to add salt to your soil. salt is not good for ground water. If you have a chunk of salt and it does not get eaten then you can remove the salt from your soil. Some years ago I seem to remember reading that a woodchuck can have several dens and he will visit them in order as he goes around the territory. so maybe he is out on visit but will be back to check when the good stuff is ready in my garden. Also next year I have to start trapping earlier when there is little food available. Today I harvested some nice broccoli for me. nice tender side shoots. the head I took a week or so ago. I like this Thompson Broccoli from Fedco seeds. it is going to be one of my favorite veggies....See MoreProtecting plants from chipmunks
Comments (23)"Once inside they take plants like tomatoes and watermelons and bite them off at the roots and leave them laying there." That sounds more like voles than chipmunks. The back part of my lot is wooded, so they (and pretty much every rodent indigenous to my area) are a persistent problem for me. When I first see damage, I put out rat traps baited with pieces of dried apricot. Whether voles or chipmunks, I usually catch them in a day or two. The same bait works on groundhogs, for the live trap. The smell of dried apricots seems to be irresistible to rodents. My garden provides a large part of my family's diet. Animals are free to wander my garden, as long as they don't eat much. If they abuse that hospitality, their presence will no longer be tolerated. I won't release them elsewhere to become someone else's problem, and I won't use poisons... but if I can't fence them out, they get a quick death....See More**##!! groundhog!!
Comments (5)Speaking of groundhogs.............last week, dh yelled at me from the living room to come quick...dashed in to see something sitting on the back porch. dh said it had stood up on its legs and looked in the storm door at him. By the time he got his shoes on and got the gun, it was gone. I didn't check my sweet potatoes this morning....We finally figured out it was a very young one. He still had a very dark coat with just a few white hairs in it. It looked like a very large squirrel. That is only the second live groundhog we have very seen....See MoreGroundhogs + Electric Fence
Comments (7)First, check to see if it is even legal to put up an electric fence in your neighborhood. If you live in town, there may be ordinances governing what you can and cannot do with an electric fence. "It usually comes overnight while we are sleeping." As far as I know, groundhogs are not nocturnal. I think they feed during the day. Like the birds, that can start very early this time of the year. You may very well be asleep when the groundhog begins his day before you begin yours. MM...See More- lovemycorgi z5b SE michigan thanked daninthedirt (USDA 9a, HZ9, CentTX, Sunset z30, Cfa)
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