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Post by paintlady on Mar 29, 2014 8:30:07 GMT -5
they're back. well...i guess they really didn't go any where. just hibernating under the sun room and my neighbor's deck. sheesh!  |
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Post by aponderer on Mar 29, 2014 9:08:37 GMT -5
Once they fatten up a bit, Spring groundhogs are good on the grill, too!
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Post by segram99 on Mar 29, 2014 9:22:17 GMT -5
Reminds me I need to sight my .22 in. Groundhogs are the #1 pest in my garden.
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Post by Evil Yoda on Mar 29, 2014 10:37:48 GMT -5
Plus, if they can't see their shadow, winter ends six weeks earlier! Go get 'em!
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Post by niamhaine on Mar 29, 2014 12:45:51 GMT -5
Time to get out the traps, buy some apples, and start euthanizing the new "neighbours"!  |
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Post by Evil Yoda on Mar 29, 2014 12:54:59 GMT -5
Just get the apples from Snow White's source. No need for traps!  |
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Post by niamhaine on Mar 29, 2014 13:01:35 GMT -5
Just get the apples from Snow White's source. No need for traps! I don't want to risk killing something else, such as the deer/rabbits...now if only the groundhogs and squirrels ate the apples that would be OK. |
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Post by pahunter on Mar 30, 2014 8:00:10 GMT -5
I'm also OK with that.
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Post by stevez51 on Mar 30, 2014 8:46:21 GMT -5
Caddyshack..!!!!!
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Post by Cowboyz on Mar 30, 2014 8:51:38 GMT -5
We don't have a problem with ground hogs, we have a mole problem. My dog used to dig 'em but not anymore.
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Post by alienrace on Mar 30, 2014 9:31:24 GMT -5
Just get the apples from Snow White's source. No need for traps! I don't want to risk killing something else, such as the deer/rabbits...now if only the groundhogs and squirrels ate the apples that would be OK. Haha, cuz deer and rabbits aren't pests either |
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Post by niamhaine on Mar 31, 2014 6:29:00 GMT -5
I don't want to risk killing something else, such as the deer/rabbits...now if only the groundhogs and squirrels ate the apples that would be OK. Haha, cuz deer and rabbits aren't pests either I don't have a problem with the deer and rabbits, but then I stopped planting a vegetable garden when we moved here. Neither deer nor rabbits have ever bothered my flower beds in the last 30 years. We back up to a 33 acre conservation district, and a herd of about 5-6 deer live there. When the apple and pear trees in the "lower 40" (our meadow before the woods line) have fruit they come up and eat that. The deer don't come any closer than the lower 40, same for the wild turkeys. We have a den of foxes on the border between the lower 40 and the back yard, so we don't have too many rabbits.  I've provided a quiet refuge for the wild animals, behave themselves and we get along fine....don't, and it's trap and euthanasia time! I'm not going to introduce poison into a system where it can't be controlled. |
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Post by oscar on Mar 31, 2014 6:42:22 GMT -5
I'm o the 3rd generation of ground hogs living under my neighbor's shed. Before my dog died, they had quite the battles. Eventually the hogs stopped coming into my gardens. His scent was also a deterent to the deer. With him gone, they all ran roughshot over all my gardens. It didn't help that the neighbor behind me cut down her apple trees.
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Post by aponderer on Mar 31, 2014 7:41:14 GMT -5
Haha, cuz deer and rabbits aren't pests either I don't have a problem with the deer and rabbits, but then I stopped planting a vegetable garden when we moved here. Neither deer nor rabbits have ever bothered my flower beds in the last 30 years. We back up to a 33 acre conservation district, and a herd of about 5-6 deer live there. When the apple and pear trees in the "lower 40" (our meadow before the woods line) have fruit they come up and eat that. The deer don't come any closer than the lower 40, same for the wild turkeys. We have a den of foxes on the border between the lower 40 and the back yard, so we don't have too many rabbits. I've provided a quiet refuge for the wild animals, behave themselves and we get along fine....don't, and it's trap and euthanasia time! I'm not going to introduce poison into a system where it can't be controlled. You must not have any hosta in your garden, either. Deer LOVE hosta. |
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Post by niamhaine on Mar 31, 2014 7:58:26 GMT -5
I don't have a problem with the deer and rabbits, but then I stopped planting a vegetable garden when we moved here. Neither deer nor rabbits have ever bothered my flower beds in the last 30 years. We back up to a 33 acre conservation district, and a herd of about 5-6 deer live there. When the apple and pear trees in the "lower 40" (our meadow before the woods line) have fruit they come up and eat that. The deer don't come any closer than the lower 40, same for the wild turkeys. We have a den of foxes on the border between the lower 40 and the back yard, so we don't have too many rabbits. I've provided a quiet refuge for the wild animals, behave themselves and we get along fine....don't, and it's trap and euthanasia time! I'm not going to introduce poison into a system where it can't be controlled. You must not have any hosta in your garden, either. Deer LOVE hosta. Nope, no hosta. Mostly bulb flowers, some peonies, rhododendron, and wisteria. We aren't here in the summer, so I try to keep it simple. I do have hosta in the Irish garden, but we don't have deer in that area over there-LOL. The only creatures chopping on my flower gardens over there are the %$#*! slugs, unless some farmer's sheep make the great escape and come to visit( which is very rare). |
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Post by aponderer on Mar 31, 2014 9:28:58 GMT -5
Slugs also love hosta... |
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Post by niamhaine on Apr 1, 2014 7:06:30 GMT -5
Slugs also love hosta... I bought and planted some "slug resistant" hosta a few years ago and the slugs seem to leave that alone. Across the pond I am the nighttime caped crusader known as "Salt Shakah the Dead Slug Makah"...able to dehydrate slugs in a single shake!    I've come to learn more in the last 7 years than I could have ever wanted to know about slugs: -Some types can change their coloring to match their surroundings . -Some species are as big and round as the largest stogies  . -Slugs must have good scent perception since newly dug dirt will attract them from almost an acre away. -When slugs come from the meadow next door between 8-9PM nightly and there are so many crawling across the driveway gravel it could be a scene from "Night of the Living Dead Slug" or "Slug Apocalypse"!  -Slugs are nocturnal, really dig moist surroundings, and hide out in the grass and leaf foliage during the day.  -They climb trees, so don't be stupid enough to try to throw salt up into the branches and run!!  (PS-This one is a REALLY important one!) - Take a flashlight and a container of salt with you in your nocturnal prowling...makes the crazy neighbour think you're bats, makes the magpies fly from tree to tree following you around to see what you're up to, provides said magpies with breakfast so when you come out the next morning all of those salty little packets are gone, and gets the magpies to spend more time in the stream gulping down water to get rid of the salty taste and less time tracking your every move. -Oh, and last but not least, forget that beer in a pan myth. When you're killing 75- 100 slugs per night, there's no room in that little slug tavern for all of them. I tried it for a week and had only 2 slugs that jumped to their demise in the beer. Tea-totaling Irish slugs, who knew?!?  |
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Post by aponderer on Apr 1, 2014 8:01:50 GMT -5
That being Ireland, I would've thought killing them with beer might not have been the best idea because lots more slugs would've come to the wake! |
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Post by oscar on Apr 1, 2014 8:57:31 GMT -5
Just sprinkle salt around your garden and around your plants. They have to slither through it and boom, good night Irene
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Post by niamhaine on Apr 1, 2014 9:01:06 GMT -5
That being Ireland, I would've thought killing them with beer might not have been the best idea because lots more slugs would've come to the wake! And no doubt pluck my flowers to bring in tribute ........Die, suckers, die!!  |
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Post by niamhaine on Apr 1, 2014 9:02:38 GMT -5
Just sprinkle salt around your garden and around your plants. They have to slither through it and boom, good night Irene I don't want to potentially hurt the toads so I don't randomly sprinkle salt or slug pellets. |
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Post by paintlady on Apr 1, 2014 10:10:07 GMT -5
now the danged ground hogs are eating my tulip and daffodil plants along side of the house. anyone know of a repellant to use to discourage this? help!!!!
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Post by niamhaine on Apr 1, 2014 10:15:13 GMT -5
now the danged ground hogs are eating my tulip and daffodil plants along side of the house. anyone know of a repellant to use to discourage this? help!!!! Nope, there was something with the odor of blood to it (I forget the name) that was supposed to work, but save your money. Dropping fresh dog feces down their hole doesn't work either. |
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Post by paintlady on Apr 1, 2014 10:17:04 GMT -5
the amonia mixture at the hole entrance does not work either. KK is looking at traps.
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Post by oscar on Apr 1, 2014 10:31:24 GMT -5
Traps, shooting or ugly fencing is the only way to stop them once they decided your garden is their refrigerator..... Deer repellants work to some exten but only for deer & rabbits, no matter what the advertisement might say.... Here is a good, funny article on the subject... www.gardensalive.com/article.asp?ai=684 |
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I've provided a quiet refuge for the wild animals, behave themselves and we get along fine....don't, and it's trap and euthanasia time! I'm not going to introduce poison into a system where it can't be controlled.
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