packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
What all are you planning in terms of upping your garden security this year, from both two legged and four legged creatures?
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packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
You'll have to let us know how that goes. Keeing it Dutch on youtube is doin hydroponics in his garage, no basement where he's at in Oklahoma.
hammerhead
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Unless things deteriorate significantly, no plans.
If things do get bad enough that food becomes critical, there'll be a summer of sleeping outside with my dog (which I enjoy anyway). But I'm not expecting this.
If things do get bad enough that food becomes critical, there'll be a summer of sleeping outside with my dog (which I enjoy anyway). But I'm not expecting this.
Esto Perpetua
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I wish I could grow enough for them to even notice!
The best way to deal with groundhogs is to snare them. Because they have burrows and defined paths to them, they are one of the easiest animals to snare. You can skin and clean them for dog food (or people food if mest is getting scarce... woodchuck isn't bad meat; all vegetarian, and with more fat than most game meats)
Summerthyme
Raggedyman
Res ipsa loquitur
I hope its made from 12" block poured solid hiwall . . . they don't seem to stop for much down this way
Raggedyman
Res ipsa loquitur
I've moved a lot of it up close to the house. but we can't do that with everything . . . still have taters beans and sweet potatoes down near the creek. you can see that from the road - and its a qtr mile away from the house. if it gets to be a problem it will need to be addressed.
We use 220 Conibears. Put them right over the holes. Have to watch out of you have dogs though.
Yeah... that's the nice thing about snares... any leash trained dog will just stop when they feel it tightening and will sit there waiting for someone to come and release them. Of course, the neighbor's rat terrier have never had a collar on in their lives, and it probably wouldn't be pretty, but they fortunately don't hunt in our fields.
Summerthyme
My uncle is the one who turned me on to using them. He uses them in his pasture and puts a fencing around them so the sheep don't find them. The chucks get through but his sheep and collies don't. I will also use a Havahart and then just shoot them if I am worried about other animals.
mudlogger
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We have an 8 foot fence against the deer, but our biggest security is that nothing can be seen from the road. The garden is down hill, and behind the house. We're going to put in another greenhouse, also hidden from the road. There are trees and other vegetation that help hide everything.
And yesterday I caught the stinking stinky groundhog, so today we start transplanting.
And yesterday I caught the stinking stinky groundhog, so today we start transplanting.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
Did you butcher the groundhog and put him in the freezer?
mudlogger
Veteran Member
No, I did not. My hatred for him was so deep and wide, it would have choked me.
Also, he was very thin and I guess plain old grass just won't put on the weight. We've been having freezes, but I couldn't put out cabbage or beets due to his demonic refusal to enter the havahart.
Elmer went to Fuddville. It was a good day!