I have to agree with (high horse)Mike McG, They are dangerous, not cute little critters, they carry rabies as well as the varmints that carry 'the plague'. If you are planning to live trap, please have a professional remove them, they can be extremely foul tempered when cornered or trapped. Tina at Given Trees
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:community_garden-bounces at list.communitygarden.org] On Behalf Of Mike McGrath Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 7:20 AM To: Linda Casto; community_garden at list.communitygarden.org Subject: Re: [Community_garden] Ground hog control you don't; they are ravenous--and dangerous; their holes break a lot of legs. They must be trapped or fenced out--and the fence needs to be fairly extreme. See here: http://www.gardensalive.com/article.asp?ai=684 Good luck! ---Mike McG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Casto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <community_garden at list.communitygarden.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 10:37 PM Subject: [Community_garden] Ground hog control > Hi, we're a new garden start up on the westside of Columbus, Ohio. We > have beautiful land, great water source and ground hogs. Lots of ground > hogs. How do we keep them out of our gardens without spending our entire > budget in putting fencing down into the ground? We don't want to lose our > plants and we don't want our gardeners losing plants and getting > discouraged. > > Thanks. > > Linda Casto > Glenwood UMC > Growing Tomorrow Community Garden project > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygar den.org/attachments/20070515/0dc8511b/attachment.html > _______________________________________________ > The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of > ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and > to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org > > To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org > > To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: > http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.commu nitygarden.org > > _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: community_garden at list.communitygarden.org To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.commu nitygarden.org
