Yes! Table height is the way. I’m zone 6 Michigan and 2021 I’m going high in container BAGS🙋🏾‍♀️ due to bad knees and back,but most of all RABBITS 😖 Might want to give it a try🙋🏾‍♀️

I have groundhog problems too. I moved out to the farm last spring and battled with them all year. Overall we did well with tomatoes, potatoes, cucumbers, green beans, and zucchini, but no broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, brussel sprouts and more. I did have some successes and have established my battle plan for this year. The raised beds I have made are of wood. I am going to add 2x4 along the top edge so that I can make a hinged top that I can be covered in hardware cloth that critters can't get into. I can also cover that with plastic sheeting during spring and fall to extend my season. I can lift up it easily to get access. The beds I made were 4' x 8' and will make it a bit of a stretch so any new beds I make now will probably be a bit smaller in width. As added precaution, my son and I are going to dig them out, they were mostly just placed on the ground, staple chicken wire on one side, set that side on the ground and fill it back up. Not only is the bottom protected from burrowing animals and the hinged hoop lid protecting my plants from sneaky animals, the deer seem to move around them instead of walking right through them. I am hoping for a good growing season this year!

@ajmcglynn9083

2 жыл бұрын

I got the hinged hoop top from "The Gardening Channel with James Prigioni". I modified it by adding the hardware cloth because it gets really windy here and would shred the plastic in no time. The wire should keep it from flapping so bad (my theory) but it should keep animals out regardless!

Hey Brother I hear your frustration and am familiar with the feeling. Keep pushing, I vote for don't scrap. Find a solution to create as much a barrier and deterrent for the groundhogs. Have you considered a 4' wire fence around the garden allotment portion of your back yard? keep setting the trap but set it outside the garden.

@OldMcWaller

4 жыл бұрын

I thought about that, but I saw them climb up 4 foot fence with my own eyes.

Cat litter (used and smelly) sprinkled around will scare away rodents. It works for sure for garden mice and rabbits, less so for squirrels.

Mixed cornstarch/ baby powder and Cayenne pepper and dust your crops. That heat will get them.

Don't scrap it!! I'm trying to start my garden this week. That's too much food to scrap. Try maybe a chicken wire fence system or something...me and the kids will come help...

You’re going to be an authority on what they like to eat. Could you do (solar powered - maybe) electric fence wire and put what they like together inside electric fences?

@annarussell3751

4 жыл бұрын

I’m so sorry you’re having to deal with that. My brother in law has cameras that send him a message on his phone when something or someone enters his driveway or porch. I don’t think he purchased an expensive kind. I used to have critters getting into my trash and strewing it all over my yard. Pretty embarrassing to wake up and see that with the baby diapers, etc. I assumed it was neighborhood dogs, but I heard noise one night and greeted a opossum in my can growling and bearing its teeth at me. “Nice little opossum, you can have that trash, “ I said as I slowly backed away. Lol!

I had some creature(s) dig holes in my pots and new bed last night. I know there are tons of squirrels and neighbor cats. I didn’t have any veggies yet. I wish I knew. It messed up some of my plants, digging them right up, but didn’t eat them. Does anyone have a good guess what animal might do that?

@OldMcWaller

4 жыл бұрын

Squirrels. They do that from time to time. Sometimes they bury nuts in the holes. Your soil is soft, so they like doing it. When you first prepare your garden beds and they are empty, cats will lay and play in them too.

@annarussell3751

4 жыл бұрын

Old McWaller Thanks! I appreciate it. I put hardware cloth over it for now and every little scrap of fencing. We are expecting lots of rain, so maybe it will be okay until I can protect things more.

Hello. I feel your pain, I have pocket gophers. Check out “Robbie and Gary gardening” channel she uses totes from Walmart up on cheap plastic chairs to make a “chair garden”Something to think about for next season. Hope this helps.😊

@OldMcWaller

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip!!!!

You have groundhogs and I have cats... The woes of farming.

@OldMcWaller

4 жыл бұрын

The cats eat your veggies? Never heard of that one.

@beautifullyhealedroses

4 жыл бұрын

@@OldMcWaller 😄 no the cats are using the container garden as their litter boxes

I would purchase an electric fence

Nooooooo!!!!! This happened last year smh

I know it’s not a popular sentiment these days of the kinder gentler ultra sensitive everything is equally deserving of life day!.....but having grown up in a different time and more rural place,I can say that in all honesty,I would dispose of those critters on site. They are rodents and you really shouldn’t be upset about equalizing those little buggers. I wouldn’t put up with groundhogs wrecking my garden. If you can kill it and compost it,that seems like a good idea to me.Straight up.👎. Now,if you really don’t want to kill a living thing,I respect that. You could put wire fencing around your individual beds, it might be sufficient. I just don’t think you should give up your garden to accommodate pests.

@OldMcWaller

4 жыл бұрын

The new traps I'm getting ends them quickly.

Repels All from Walmart

@OldMcWaller

4 жыл бұрын

Tried it. Doesn't work.

Need to camp out with a pellet gun when I was a kid not a bird or squirrel would come near my yard they knew better

@OldMcWaller

4 жыл бұрын

I live in NJ. Crazy restrictive gun laws. Beebee and pellet guns are counted as REAL guns. Can't just shoot them here. It would be counted as hunting.