Oh, I hate groundhogs.
What with the drought and all this year, they have been desperate. The young ones that have been driven out are the smallest I have ever seen, small enough to go *through* the chain link webbing on the neighbor?s side of the vegetable garden, bypassing the shock wire at the top. A setup that had worked for a dozen years or more has been breached!
Have been sweating buckets and expending cash like crazy. First to protect the raspberries from birds, which I?d never needed to do before, because normally they are spending all their time eating mulberries. But there were no mulberries in the neighborhood this year, because the freeze that came after the March heat wave wiped them out.
Now the pint-sized groundhogs have mowed their way though ¾ of my edamame. Worse, a burrow was started inside the garden. I dug that sucker out until it dead-ended. I guess it was started yesterday evening, since the rain early this morning had wet down the newly dug out earth.
I?m going to reinforce the chain link on the neighbor?s side from the inside of the veggie garden and have set up a trap. Apples didn?t seem to work on this one so I?ve added watermelon. I need something it wants more than the soybean leaves?or hope that it will give up and move on if only I build a better fence.
Arghh. I've got enough troubles (health). Damn. Damn. Damn.