Set up a camera to figure out who was munching away at my garden (was pretty sure it was Mr. Groundhog harvesting with glee, but wanted to be positive). I knew he was digging under my makeshift blockade, so we set the camera up to catch him in action. Left the fencing / bricks / logs poorly setup from his previous break-in to make it easy for him. Once we had confirmation, I spent the evening burying hardware cloth and stapling it across the entrance, then lining it front and back with bricks. Here’s hoping it does the trick!
by talazws
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I would love it if my groundhogs ate tomatoes. I’ve got those for days. Mine only mow down my brassicas.
I have one living under my porch that I can’t get rid of and he’s been living off the clover in my lawn and my green bean leaves. Still harvesting a ton of beans so I’ve let him be for now. Put my fall broccoli out last week and he ate it down to nothing in less than 2 hours so that I was upset about.
You thought a piece of wood would stop a woodchuck! Ha!
Yeah we’ve had this guy living in our yard since we moved here in 2019. We have tried blocking his holes, fencing off new areas, and a have-a-heart trap. Nothing has worked. This year I have been fencing off individual beds in my garden as added security, but it doesn’t work for each crop / spot. Each year we are lulled into a sense of false security as he moves out for a few months to raise a litter with the Mrs. Groundhog in our neighbor’s yard. Then in late summer he suddenly returns to our property and finds a new way to sneak in.