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.
It’s usually a more robust system than this, I left it less secure to tempt him so I could get footage. It was hardware cloth stapled across my gate on one side, then bricks on either side, then the wood, and then multiple shovels lined up against it. It would deter him for a few days, and then he would take the time / effort to dig under it. Now it’s buried and secured a lot more. The rest of the garden has buried fencing, it’s just the gates that pose a security risk! Trying to figure out the best system, but I’m being outsmarted by a groundhog!
I’ve got something eating my tomatoes and sweet peppers. Think it’s a raccoon. Your thief is much cuter!