Anyone ever grow Marmota?

[amerikat]

Marmota Monax. I'm growing a big fat one.




Yes it's a groundhog. He's eating my garden. Ate all the broccoli and cauliflower and topped off the beans.

I didn't think he would come up near the house. I thought the cats would keep him away from the garden.

I'm feeling a bit like Carl(Bill Murray) in "Caddy Shack" right about now.

I guess I'll have to trap him and take him to a new home.

[Gato Moteado]

1. i thought you said mota....

;)

[amerikat]

2. What is Mota?

that's it.......you will be caught and deported to thunder mountain too!

[NJCher]

3. google "groundhog out"

They make the produce right here in Jersey and you can buy it online. I have one breaking into my garden, even though there's a fence (cyclone, too!).

I have had such success with this product that I am growing crops outside the garden: cukes, tomatoes. I spray it with stuff and they hate it.

BTW, it's a mixture of peppermint oil, eucalytus, etc. Totally organic.

I have a big jug of it. Wouldn't be able to garden without it.

I'm sorry about all the things he ate. Before I got GO, I used to be just devastated when one would get into my garden and eat all my plants. It is one of the worst feelings. We put a lot into our gardens and plants and we don't do it to feed groundHOGS.



Cher

[amerikat]

5. He's very cute. I love all animals

But he must go. I have located a place for him. I can share my veggies with humans......he is recklesss and eats everything i want to eat. Nice that we have the same tastes in veggies.......he must go. Aside from the fact that he has no mate here, he is fat from the summer bounty....I want him to go before he wants to hibernate. I am hoping I can relocate him to a more wild enviroment.

[amerikat]

7. He's cool.........I just didn't figure him in the eqation of growing food

I will be more prepared next year.......cause he will not live here, He will live in his better habtitat. I hope he/she finds a mate and has good plants to eat.

[madeline_con]

4. Have you tried a fake owl or rubber snakes?

They might keep him at bay. :shrug:

[amerikat]

6. I have not tried that

I have real live cats.

[NJCher]

8. burrows, tunnels, etc

I hauled groundhogs off (using a Havaheart trap) for about eight years. My spouse, who was raised on a farm, told me I was wasting my time. If there's one groundhog, there's another. Around here, which is suburban NJ, the groundhogs have an extensive tunnel system. Haul one off, there's another to take its place.

Now that may not be the case where you are (virgin groundhog territory?) but if it's not, you are just wasting your time. It's not as simple as removing one groundhog, and I say that having learned this lesson the hard way.

Good luck, whatever solution you decide to try.



Cher

[amerikat]

14. To my knowledge there is only one hoggie

I have never seen more than one and there are no babies around. I think i'll be taking him/her to a place where he may meet some of his own species. I hope he/she finds another of his species and starts a family.

I got the haveaheart trap tonight. I'll bait it and place on sunday night. Hoping for the best.

[MuseRider]

9. One thing that I have heard farmers/ranchers

do, at least the farmers/ranchers who are no kill (not many) is to let the grass grow. Their defense is often sight, that is why they sit up and look around. This will probably not help you now since you already have burrows but try this next year. Let the grass grow tall in an area around your garden. If they can't see over it they will go where they can see over it. It may be that you can't do this but it is worth a try if you can. They just move around, they will still be there but not comfortable enough in your garden to mess with it.

This is just word of mouth farmer/rancher talk so I have no idea if it would work. Apparently they move them around by doing this so that there is always an area for grazing or farming and the fallow areas are left for the Prairie Dogs/Ground Hogs.

[Kolesar]

10. My hunch is to bury a galvanized hog fence a foot deep around the perimeter of the garden.

I don't know for sure. A friend of mine did this to good effect, but I don't recall what pest he was dealing with. In our garden, we use an electric fence with two wires close to the ground. Something had been hopping over the lower wire, so we put in a second. It worked. Our fence was implemented to stop the deer and it works on deer. We also see rabbits, squirrels and skunks.

[noamnety]

11. That's been working for me.

I don't have an electric fence because I know the first thing I'd do is zap myself with it. But I have a metal fence recycled from some other project around my garden to protect it from the ground hogs. I looked out one day and saw a baby rabbit waltz right the grid of the fencing and jump up into one of the raised beds. So now I also have a layer of bird netting over the regular fence, and the bottom of the bird netting is tucked under some edging we had lying around.

You could also just put some scavenged boards around the edge of the garden and tuck netting under that - I'm a big fan of doing things cheap and easy. (Which is no reflection on myself! :D)

[uppityperson]

12. awwww, it's so cute! That is really too bad.

Cuter than my fine crop (not my pictures, but very well could be):


However, they are peaceful:

[amerikat]

13. super slugs

I'm glad I don't have them here.

[NJCher]

15. just for you, Amerikat

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page2651.html?theme=light

:)



Cher

[amerikat]

16. Wow. They even destroy stone.

No wonder the broccoli fell so swiftly. I had forgotten about "coast to coast" website. Lots of interesting stuff there. Thanks