On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 12:08:13 -0400, Frank <"frank "@frank.net> wrote:
Wife looked out at noon to see a groundhog messing with flowers on our deck. >>
Highly unusual as our deck is 10 ft. off the ground and he had to climb
stairs.
He was a youngster and I checked the area for signs of burrowing and
found none so will not bring out the Hav-a-hart.
I have a double flight of stairs leading to my deck where I grow
pretty much everything. Groundhogs are not daunted and neither are the raccoons.
Wife looked out at noon to see a groundhog messing with flowers on our deck.
Highly unusual as our deck is 10 ft. off the ground and he had to climb >stairs.
He was a youngster and I checked the area for signs of burrowing and
found none so will not bring out the Hav-a-hart.
Wife looked out at noon to see a groundhog messing with flowers on our deck.
Highly unusual as our deck is 10 ft. off the ground and he had to climb stairs.
He was a youngster and I checked the area for signs of burrowing and
found none so will not bring out the Hav-a-hart.
In article <sckdpf$dmj$1@dont-email.me>, "frank "@frank.net says...
Wife looked out at noon to see a groundhog messing with flowers on our deck. >>
Highly unusual as our deck is 10 ft. off the ground and he had to climb
stairs.
He was a youngster and I checked the area for signs of burrowing and
found none so will not bring out the Hav-a-hart.
Being out in the country I usually bring out a 12 gauge or 22. I have trapped a few criters like a skunk a few weeks ago.
Usually if one critter is around,there are more like it somewhere close
by.
Wife looked out at noon to see a groundhog messing with flowers on our deck.
Highly unusual as our deck is 10 ft. off the ground and he had to climb stairs.
He was a youngster and I checked the area for signs of burrowing and
found none so will not bring out the Hav-a-hart.
I have a double flight of stairs leading to my deck where I grow
pretty much everything. Groundhogs are not daunted and neither are the raccoons.
Frank wrote:
Wife looked out at noon to see a groundhog messing with flowers on our deck.
Highly unusual as our deck is 10 ft. off the ground and he had to climb stairs.
He was a youngster and I checked the area for signs of burrowing andthey will climb and the young are usually easily trapped or
found none so will not bring out the Hav-a-hart.
hunted.
even the adults are not that bright. alas they can do a lot
of damage (not as bad as some other animals though).
songbird
Frank wrote:
Wife looked out at noon to see a groundhog messing with flowers on our deck. >>
Highly unusual as our deck is 10 ft. off the ground and he had to climb
stairs.
He was a youngster and I checked the area for signs of burrowing and
found none so will not bring out the Hav-a-hart.
they will climb and the young are usually easily trapped or
hunted.
even the adults are not that bright. alas they can do a lot
of damage (not as bad as some other animals though).
songbird
Boron Elgar wrote:
...
I have a double flight of stairs leading to my deck where I grow
pretty much everything. Groundhogs are not daunted and neither are the
raccoons.
for raccoons that's like setting out a plate of sardines. i
often see them climbing.
songbird
This is the time of year moms are weaning their little ones and the little go searching for their own territory.
So, the young ones may decide to settle near you if they are comfortable there.
Stephen Peek wrote:
...
This is the time of year moms are weaning their little ones and the little go searching for their own territory.
So, the young ones may decide to settle near you if they are comfortable there.
we have a large drainage ditch that runs through the property
so they dig burrows in the banks. once established they won't
leave easily. i end up having to hunt them and their little
ones.
i have a fence up which keeps them mostly away but the fence
isn't totally enclosing the gardens so they come visit at times
and i scare them off or hunt them. if they come back enough
times they'll get buried someplace in a garden. :(
trapping and relocating just doesn't accomplish anything as
there are always plenty more. the fences help the most but i
have to check them once in a while to make sure they've not
dug new tunnels underneath.
songbird
Boron Elgar wrote:
...
I have a double flight of stairs leading to my deck where I grow
pretty much everything. Groundhogs are not daunted and neither are the
raccoons.
for raccoons that's like setting out a plate of sardines. i
often see them climbing.
songbird
Spot on. I put up a fence on the stairs at one point and just wound up
with claw marks on the edges of the deck and it devised a way around.
Boron Elgar wrote:
...
Spot on. I put up a fence on the stairs at one point and just wound up
with claw marks on the edges of the deck and it devised a way around.
they are always around here.
i have put out some ant bait stations to keep some little
brown ant and carpenter ants from coming back and the
raccoon decided it wanted to eat the bait (which smells
like peanut butter) so it chewed one of them open to get
at the bait. it was pretty thick plastic and it did get
in but it didn't repeat the effort for another trap that
was nearby but there was a bite mark in it.
always some new adventure... :)
On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 22:45:13 -0400, songbird <songbird@anthive.com>
wrote:
Boron Elgar wrote:
...
I have a double flight of stairs leading to my deck where I grow
pretty much everything. Groundhogs are not daunted and neither are the
raccoons.
for raccoons that's like setting out a plate of sardines. i
often see them climbing.
songbird
Spot on. I put up a fence on the stairs at one point and just wound up
with claw marks on the edges of the deck and it devised a way around.
songbird wrote:...
always some new adventure... :)I consider your last statement as something that should be printed on
every gardener's t-shirt.
On 7/14/2021 1:20 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 22:45:13 -0400, songbird <songbird@anthive.com>
wrote:
Boron Elgar wrote:
...
I have a double flight of stairs leading to my deck where I grow
pretty much everything. Groundhogs are not daunted and neither are the >>>> raccoons.
for raccoons that's like setting out a plate of sardines. i
often see them climbing.
songbird
Spot on. I put up a fence on the stairs at one point and just wound up
with claw marks on the edges of the deck and it devised a way around.
Wife wanted me to block stairs but I told her it was rare to see a
groundhog climbing them and I know you cannot deter raccoons. I will
tell her that another good reason is we may get scratches on the deck
which is Trex.
Frank wrote:
On 7/14/2021 1:20 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 22:45:13 -0400, songbird <songbird@anthive.com>
wrote:
Boron Elgar wrote:
...
I have a double flight of stairs leading to my deck where I grow
pretty much everything. Groundhogs are not daunted and neither are the >>>>> raccoons.
for raccoons that's like setting out a plate of sardines. i
often see them climbing.
songbird
Spot on. I put up a fence on the stairs at one point and just wound up
with claw marks on the edges of the deck and it devised a way around.
Wife wanted me to block stairs but I told her it was rare to see a
groundhog climbing them and I know you cannot deter raccoons. I will
tell her that another good reason is we may get scratches on the deck
which is Trex.
once in a while they break things trying to get at a wasp or
hornet nest. just yesterday Mom had to pick up one of her things
that had gotten knocked over and torn apart because it had a
nest in it.
songbird
Boron Elgar wrote:
songbird wrote:...
always some new adventure... :)I consider your last statement as something that should be printed on
every gardener's t-shirt.
one reason i really enjoy gardening is that it puts you
in close contact with the world and if you're observant you
can really have a lot of fun figuring out how to get a crop
from various plants.
my own biggest things to enjoy planting and growing are
strawberries, beans, tomatoes, onions, garlic, squash,
melons and peas. add in some greens and you've got a
pretty good chance of getting something to work out and
you can often pick varieties that will survive bug damage
and diseases and other things that happen.
i've been gardening most of my life and as of yet while
some issues are a challenge we've not had complete failures
because we do grow a variety of things and also because we
have fences. if we didn't have fences the deer would do a
lot more damage to the vegetable crops.
i work mostly with growing and cross-breeding beans. i
have a lot of different gardens and different soil conditions
so that makes me able to evaluate a lot of different varieties
and to try things out. this past spring someone from Poland
adopted two of my cross-breeds so this has been fun to see
my babies blooming on another continent. :)
songbird
I'll plant anything from seed or that I think I can grow.. Right now
I have some rambutan pits that have started to come up with shoots,,
two date palms starting from packaged dates I got at Trader Joe's, a
chunk of galangal that is coming up, so that I have some fresh all
winter.
Squash and melons are all in the past. The critters get them, even
when a rise them in bets onto frames. Too much effort and too much disappointment. Breaks my heart, but I have learned to live with it.
I have had failures due to critters- like the just-before-a-frost
Brussels sprout stalks stripped clean by the groundhogs. I now do
almost all my growing in tubs up on the deck. It cuts down on some
predation, but not all. Mouse and rat traps placed around likely
targets scare off some critters.
One of the most wicked diseases, though, is the wilt that I get on
cukes and tomatoes. I am diligent about keeping leaves off the soil
and watering, but I cannot control the heat, humidity and rain. I
experiment with varieties each summer and save seed from plants that I
think do best.
i work mostly with growing and cross-breeding beans. i
have a lot of different gardens and different soil conditions
so that makes me able to evaluate a lot of different varieties
and to try things out. this past spring someone from Poland
adopted two of my cross-breeds so this has been fun to see
my babies blooming on another continent. :)
I have seen your many posts about the beans you grow. They are always interesting reads.
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