Re: [gardeners] GROUNDHOGS
drusus@golden.net (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Sat, 10 Apr 1999 06:51:29 -0400
At 09:32 PM 09-04-99 PDT, you wrote:
>Dear list,
> I can speak from personal experience with moles...the juicy fruit
>works! I lived in San Francisco for many years and when I first moved
>in my lawn was just riddled with moles. I tried everything, including
>the neighbor man who was a good ol' southern boy and didn't mind
>smacking the things with a bat and then picking up the dead and
>bleeding body...but even he couldn't keep up with them. And besides,
>he eventually moved away. I tried the
>flushing-them-out-with-the-hose, dogs (although not dachsunds), poison
>put down the holes, etc. After all those things failed, I heard on a
>radio gardening show about putting an unchewed stick of juicy fruit
>down the holes. What could I lose? So, I tried it and shabam!
>within a week or two all of the mole holes were quiet and no more ever
>came up. And I lived there for 3 more years... I'm sold on it. Now,
>the question is: are moles and groundhogs similiar enough for the
>groudhogs to like the juicy fruit too? It's worth a try. (keep
>putting a fresh stick down all the holes day after day until your sure
>that the critters are gone)
I doubt this would work = they are very different critters. Size, for
example = ground hogs are the size of small dogs, sometimes larger, with
the digging capabilities of moles.
Lucinda
>
> Carolyn (who is very tired from planting 100 daylilies this week)
> zone 7b
> Bethesda
>
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