I know everyone here will hate this, but groundhogs must die or be relocated unless you have a fence that can keep them out of your garden.
katielynne53725
Look.. I TRIED to play nice with mine.. I TRIED to trap and rehome him, but he wasn’t having it..
I went 2 routes; capsaicin deterrent around the shed he was living under.. and poison peanut butter cone *under* the shed.. idk which choice he made, but I don’t have a groundhog problem anymore.
SquidRamen2001
Probably
FiRE-CPA
might even undermine your foundation while he’s at it!
jaded-introvert
Yup. Groundhogs are jerks like that. I left ours tons of dandelions and clover and the little poo kept eating my beans.
AdministrativeWin583
Yes.
Positive-Beautiful55
Yep
Broken_Melody85
I wish I could tell you no. However, I’ve been fighting these guys in my yard for years. They keep getting bolder. Last year they came up onto my deck at night to eat my snack veggies! I’ve had to fence off anything I want to survive. This last year, they ate my white lilac bushes down to the stem, and they were finally going to bloom for me! Ugh!
So, my thing for this year- make shift fence around each of my raised garden beds and blocking off my deck. They need to be exterminated, I just can’t do that myself. It will cost way too much to outsource, so it’s cheaper to fence.
Bot_Fly_Bot
100%. And if you confront him while doing so, you will get a LOT of attitude. Speaking from experience.
glowFernOasis
Are there a lot of foxes or coyotes in your neighborhood?
Jaminp
Set up a camera and make you tube videos. You will raise enough money for all the vegetables they eat to make them a decoy garden for them to have.
HopefulBandicoot8053
Yes and stare at your camera challenging you to do something
01011000-01101001
Time for raised beds.
kerberos824
Yes.
Its funny how downvoted the lethal solutions are. But the reality is, I invest time, energy, and money into gardening with the expectation that it will feed me and my family – not groundhogs. Relocating them in haveaheart traps is frequently fatal for a variety of reasons (transport-related stress, exhaustion, dehydration, starvation, injuries received or given to themselves during trapping, and attacks from resident animals) but we just “feel better” about it because the death is out of our hands. But it is fantasy. Also, relocating them is often illegal, and can introduce disease and other problems into a new area (*especially* mange).
A 2004 study of gray squirrels that were trapped from a suburban area and relocated to a large forest found that 97% of the squirrels either died or disappeared from their release site. [https://www.wildcareoklahoma.org/blog/blog-2-test-456/](https://www.wildcareoklahoma.org/blog/blog-2-test-456/)
If my dogs don’t keep them away (they almost always do), I resort to lethal means.
Pisssssed
Yes
WhitherWander
Every. Single. Eggplant.
I grew three plants and he ate every last fruit.
TheAzureMage
No.
They are his vegetables now. He’s going to eat all of his vegetables though.
pinkbev71
He’s thinking about it!! 😂
Euphoric-Fly-2549
We had a vole problem once, I just stuck the end of a hose into the hole and let it run for a few hours. That seemed to solve the problem.
Right down to the nub , last groundhog that went into our garden ended up in the pot with some fresh garden vegetables . I think the word is out ,he’s the last one we have seen around.
simple_champ
Can’t say for sure but I will say I’ve never seen a skinny groundhog.
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Of course not – he’s going to share with the family.
Yes. Most likely. I’m sure someone here will explain why everyone can live in peace, but in my experience you either have a groundhog or a garden.
No, Because he’s going to eat the seedlings before they turn into vegetables.
Strangely mine eat mostly weeds. That works for me. As for protecting things, these are my strawberry pots.
https://preview.redd.it/wlqxirx3igpg1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7cf592d006bc44d0108b1e4576bff814c82340bf
I finally covered them with a finer plastic netting for chipmunks.
Yes
He’ll do his best….
I have raccoons, skunks, squirrels, chipmunks, rabbits, voles and groundhogs.
The groundhogs seem to be the only ones that want to generationally bankrupt me.
Follow up question: would building a huge cage out of pvc and chicken wire do anything??
100% trap him and haul him out of the area.
And flowers, and grass, and…
Yes, in the most adorable way.
Had one last year. He mostly left my tomatoes, peppers, and various alliums alone but otherwise that little shit razed everything to the ground
Catch him
Your cucumber plants, every bean you ever thought about planting, and a good 50% of your tomatoes, but only after they start turning red.
Shoot him
https://preview.redd.it/k1io1hitkgpg1.png?width=746&format=png&auto=webp&s=38eb35ccffb8327cc5e4a32d6eb27d6f4dd3f5b8
I know everyone here will hate this, but groundhogs must die or be relocated unless you have a fence that can keep them out of your garden.
Look.. I TRIED to play nice with mine.. I TRIED to trap and rehome him, but he wasn’t having it..
I went 2 routes; capsaicin deterrent around the shed he was living under.. and poison peanut butter cone *under* the shed.. idk which choice he made, but I don’t have a groundhog problem anymore.
Probably
might even undermine your foundation while he’s at it!
Yup. Groundhogs are jerks like that. I left ours tons of dandelions and clover and the little poo kept eating my beans.
Yes.
Yep
I wish I could tell you no. However, I’ve been fighting these guys in my yard for years. They keep getting bolder. Last year they came up onto my deck at night to eat my snack veggies! I’ve had to fence off anything I want to survive. This last year, they ate my white lilac bushes down to the stem, and they were finally going to bloom for me! Ugh!
So, my thing for this year- make shift fence around each of my raised garden beds and blocking off my deck. They need to be exterminated, I just can’t do that myself. It will cost way too much to outsource, so it’s cheaper to fence.
100%. And if you confront him while doing so, you will get a LOT of attitude. Speaking from experience.
Are there a lot of foxes or coyotes in your neighborhood?
Set up a camera and make you tube videos. You will raise enough money for all the vegetables they eat to make them a decoy garden for them to have.
Yes and stare at your camera challenging you to do something
Time for raised beds.
Yes.
Its funny how downvoted the lethal solutions are. But the reality is, I invest time, energy, and money into gardening with the expectation that it will feed me and my family – not groundhogs. Relocating them in haveaheart traps is frequently fatal for a variety of reasons (transport-related stress, exhaustion, dehydration, starvation, injuries received or given to themselves during trapping, and attacks from resident animals) but we just “feel better” about it because the death is out of our hands. But it is fantasy. Also, relocating them is often illegal, and can introduce disease and other problems into a new area (*especially* mange).
A 2004 study of gray squirrels that were trapped from a suburban area and relocated to a large forest found that 97% of the squirrels either died or disappeared from their release site. [https://www.wildcareoklahoma.org/blog/blog-2-test-456/](https://www.wildcareoklahoma.org/blog/blog-2-test-456/)
If my dogs don’t keep them away (they almost always do), I resort to lethal means.
Yes
Every. Single. Eggplant.
I grew three plants and he ate every last fruit.
No.
They are his vegetables now. He’s going to eat all of his vegetables though.
He’s thinking about it!! 😂
We had a vole problem once, I just stuck the end of a hose into the hole and let it run for a few hours. That seemed to solve the problem.
https://preview.redd.it/nou9g84ktgpg1.jpeg?width=747&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0ddc8406d8e98a460fdd559fd61d12d8b5b3d30b
Right down to the nub , last groundhog that went into our garden ended up in the pot with some fresh garden vegetables . I think the word is out ,he’s the last one we have seen around.
Can’t say for sure but I will say I’ve never seen a skinny groundhog.