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?
Still planning on gardening in my basement. probably aquaponics. What no one can see, no one can steal.
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)I don't see this as a problem unless things get a lot worse than what we're seeing right now.
The biggest problem around here is deer and groundhog's and I can keep the deer out with the electric fence but groundhog's need to be gotten after with a firearm.
Last year I put up a 7 foot fence to try and keep out the elk.
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
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.We use 220 Conibears. Put them right over the holes. Have to watch out of you have dogs though.
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.
No, I did not. My hatred for him was so deep and wide, it would have choked me.Did you butcher the groundhog and put him in the freezer?