Garden has been blowing up with all the heat and rain . Problem now is the groundhog! Bastard has been mowing my peas , beans and cilantro down. I found one of his holes Tuesday , he sat there staring at me . So I blasted him in the face with my slingshot . 4 hours later , he really got my garden good! Heh , musta pissed him off .

So yesterday I got a trap . So far , I have got a squirrel and a skunk!
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when you find a hole Cheferson
you fill it ....but don't block it 100 %
fill it with broken glass...nails... sharp wire
like old barbed wire fencing anything that will
cut it's front feet... the ones that dig...
don't forget to pee down them too
to say "MY TERRITORY" Get out!

oh yeah

swimmer says pumpkins and their leaves

they cannot resist ... as bait... for traps

Get giant killer brand smoke bombs at the hardware store, Damon's has them. You have to get rid of them or you will be sorry
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No pumpkins yet , so can't use those . Ive been pissin everywhere ! Just let the skunk go , didn't even spray ! Wife thought it was the funniest thing . Heh , the squirrel too, never heard so many different noises ! My daughter sat and watched him for 20 min with out blinking!

I have been using cilantro , pea shoots , corn and cantaloupe for bait . Just put the trap back out , see what I catch today .

Thanks bill. How have you been bro. I told the neighbor about those , as one of the holes is in her yard . The other hole is under the neighbors shed , so no incendiary devices there .
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they hate mothballs too

Still no groundhog , got a possum last night though ! Heh. Have to see what my daughter thinks of him !
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Find hole, put hose down it, turn on water, drown him till he comes up for air than hit in head with shovel, not pretty but effective.Make sure no kids are around.
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Nah, use the live trap. I'm not even that squeamish but you're not likely to kill it with one whack and once the thing starts screaming you're gonna regret it :eek:

Only real defense for these critters is a good fence buried into the ground.

-spence

Bastard ate my yellow squash I was gonna eat tonight! Also more cilantro, carrots and some tomatoes ! Took all the rest of the above , some corn ,and cantaloupe . Two hours later , one groundhog ! Surprisingly the squirrel was the loudest and meanest in my 2 day , 4 animal tour !
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Chef- This worked for a friend - Go to a salon and get human hair and spread it heavily around the animals' den.

Coyote piss.....they sell it at gardening stores....a few drops on a cotton ball in a few old pill bottles strategically placed around the garden works well......make sure you put some holes in the bottles......works wonders for me in keeping them away.
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One shot. El Cabong. Buried right in the same hole. But I understand. I was pissed he took a bite out of all my veggies that year. A dog works wonders to keeping the yard wood bogger free.
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They always have a second route in and out of the abode. If you use smoke bombs cover the hole with an old blanket so it really suffoocates the bast...d. Have-a-heart be prepaed to shoot or transport. If driving somewhere put in barrel in case its pisses. Or they drown rather easily.
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fliipin rabbits decimating everything. If you dont hear from me for a while its because I was arrested for discharing a .22 from my bedroom window! Grrrr.....

I Heart Jenn.


Shorts are the way to go, not much louder than an air rifle.

There used to be zero rabbits in our neighborhood. Now that all the cats have died or are in retirement they're coming back incredibly fast. At this rate within 5 years they'll be nesting in my living room.

-spence

i have zero rabbits :bc:

you wont believe this but cheap strawberry WINE is a perfect trap bait for wabbits.

we have had a dicussion about all the rabbits around.....we have come to conclussion that the coyotes have taken a lot of cats and owners have wised up and keep them inside.....have a half dozen rabbits running around the yard.

i've noticed that close to the ocean the rabbits are everywhere
but go inland 60 miles and there are NONE to be seen ...

Wouldn't the coyotes take out the rabbits?
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you'd think so....

but cats have a weakness that the coyotes have keyed in on

and that is... when they are transfixed onto prey such as a chipmunk, mouse or bird
they concentrate on closing the distance and develop tunnel vision
crouching to stay unseen... never taking their eyes off their quarry

they don't OFTEN watch their "6" and the coyotes sneak up and grab them
i know because i lost two well schooled cats in 2 weeks down there
in buzzards bay on a short visit.....

Raven I AM 60 miles from the ocean and we are loaded this year. I wuldnt waste even cheap strawberry wine trying to trap them! It is rediculous what they have eaten. We have hawks but they must not be hungry enough to wipe them out. Same with the coyotes. We had a bobcat roaming around a couple years ago and that was the only year they seemed to "disappear" :)

between the insect damage, weather and rabbits we were getting pretty bummed about this years garden. On a better note tonite I picked a single cherry tomato (that seems early, no?) spotted several miniscule cukes starting and a teeny tiny zucchini starting. Cant seem to grow greens to save my life but I was finally able to pick a salad tonite along with another pint of blueberries so faith was somewhat restored, if only for a moment!

most people consider the garden to be a "spring thing".....

or at least that's when they have the most motivation to start one
as the weather warms up and old man winter begins to fade away

but the best gardens are started "now" as the shorter and shorter days light
spur the plants to develop sooner...

many plants can take allot more cold and actually prefer it... the cool....
i've had my very best gardens in the fall i can say.... that i began now

Guy's... the best way( short of a bullet) to catch a yard pig ( wood chuck) is with a blind set live trap ( I was in the buisness for over 20 years... I got sick of the phone ringing all hours of the day and night anbd gave it up))... open both doors and set it in his trial.... add a small amount of grass from the trail on the cage floor so the wire does not spook him.. bend some grass and weeds over the cage to break up the outline to make it look like a tunnel... LIGHTLY block the trail sides of the trail with small sticks and vegetation.. . you'll avoid the unwanted catches and catch the garden raider... makes sure the cage does no rock.. they are extremly skittish about unstable/unfamilure grounds.. the same tactic works well on bugs ( bunny) too.. just find a pinch point where they are entering the yard...

the golpher traps out west used the tunnel trick too

of course tho it was a belly squeezer bar trap but very effective

but the way they fooled the gopher was to make a small round hole

in the back side of the trap [ o ] so when they look ahead it
APPEARS as though the tunnel exit is up aways and then they'd stumble/bump
into the spring lever....

so R9's method is tried and true :point: dead on

I've caught 100's of them that way.... almost any varmit can be caught in a blind set... all animals ( and fish) are creatures of habit.... with a little study and careful placement of said capturing devise.. they all can be caught.. rather easily...

and I have eaten them before... they are rather tasty ...slightly/mildly gamey.. but not unpleasant...very simular to muskrat...

Thanks for the tips rockfish! Thinking i got them all .Caught 2 so far ,and haven't seen any more damage . I released them both in the area of elitist snobs who cut off access to one of my favorite spots . Well worth the potential 100 fine :)!
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awesome :btu:

that's great... I like the way you think...When I used to trap unwanted beaver ( under my ADC license)... I always thought about live trapping them and letting them go in areas where people thought they were "cute".. unfortunatly ( for the beaver) all the problem beaver I trapped were deceased...

with all this humidity and rain my landscape gardens have gotten out of hand requiring a lot of cutting back. Like a jungle out there.

ya'll need some red flamingo's Paul

1/2 hour of picking. Going to freeze these and make jam at a later date. Too busy now.

My youngest son who turns three next month could put all those away in one sitting.
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LOL. but you wouldn't want to clean up after him. Can you say blue poop

Been there done that. Very blue!
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cupcakes please