No way man. I’ve had the same one for 3 years now. I’ve tried blocking the hole that they have running all the way down the road. They dig around the block. Tried smoke bombs, deterrent, garlic powder, ghost pepper flakes, cat fur, cat pee, dog pee, dog poop, dog chasing it, me chasing it, blood meal, beer, fencing under ground, bird netting… it has eaten my garden 4 times over this year, my neighbors as well. Now I’m staking out and waiting for him with Mr. Air Rifle. Hate to do it- but I’ve tried everything.
I hear ya! Tried all of the deterrents that you describe to keep them out of my garden, right down to a 1300 fps pellet rifle. Although it worked amazingly well, I hated spending hours sitting and waiting for them in the morning and evenings taking up my free time. I looked like a military sniper hiding out in the brush in my own yard. I also didn't like shooting them because some of them would run off and die. I hated that. So now I use Dukes Body Traps. They are like the Ronco oven, set it and forget it and check it the next day. To me they are humane because death is within 5 to 30 seconds depending on their size. I have no problem protecting what is mine. The garden is mine, not to mention the time and sweat it took to put it in. And I didn't do it for a groundhog smorgasbord.
I have a groundhog destroying my garden currently for the last month in Missouri. He has eaten all the tops off the carrots, is eating potato leaves and digging in them, tramples all my green onions and bites the tops off, has destroyed a couple pepper and tomato plants, has been eating leeks off my other onions and trampling them too. Has eaten all the vegetation off my Broccoli, ate my only summer savory, he’s a real a’hole! I sprinkled some cayenne pepper around the area tonight because I hear it offends them. Will put up a chicken wire fence soon, this lil effer is not gonna win! Feel like Bill Murray in Caddyshack.
I have the same problem!!!I hate them!!! I have tried everything that this woman has said for two summers. I want them to die!!! I even put chicken wire fence up but they dig under it!! I put a hose in the den that didn’t work. I now am getting a pellet gun. Maybe after being shot in the ass a couple times they will move on!!!!
I have a garden for past 40 years , nothing will stop a ground hog from raiding your garden , fence will not work , only trapping them and relocating them a few miles away . if there is food source they love , they will get it .
Upstate SC here. We have 3 big dogs that have access to our fenced in over acre back yard. Only a few trees. One is a persimmon and one is a huge mulberry. These trees are a natural part of landscape in our area. Grows wild in a forest across from us. The groundhogs have tunneled under our wrought iron fence and obviously don't mind being around our dogs or people. There are new burrows still popping up. We are going to need to regrade our back yard to repair where tunnels have collapsed and caused trouble with wash out of area. Last year I thought they were cute critters. Now I absolutely hate them. I'm so afraid either a grandchild or one of the dogs will break a leg due to the damage. Not to mention our yard service guys. Nuisance is a hole or two. What it seems we have is a colony. But worst than that it makes no sense when there is pasture land and other open areas just beside our property. Yet...here they are. 2 of my dobermans don't want to go into yard early morning or late afternoon any longer. These are not adorable little fuzzy critters I thought they were. They are mean as snakes and none of the things mentioned here ring true with the ones we have. It is going to cost us a fortune to eradicate and repair. In SC there is no option to catch and release. If you catch them you by law must kill them.
Groundhogs have eaten all my brassica, beans, pickles along with my herbs. By leaving them alone they have multiplied and have become a major problem. I shoot them when I can but those monsters are fast.
I have one destroying my brassica food plot, I have a trap set and all holes but one blocked so I should have him this evening when I get home! Seen him run in hole so I moved trap when I seen where he ran off in his hole
Ok, I'm here because I have a family of groundhogs, my husband and I don't mind them, in fact we think they are adorable. The only problem we have is they are starting to dig under my chickens fence lol I didn't know they don't like chickens. They aren't after my chickens, they are after green grass inside my run. Thanks for this, I won't kill them like most people would. I appreciate your share, humane to the animals, it's my priority ♥️
Thank you. So far the groundhogs in my yard leave tomatoes alone, but a baby slipped thru the gate to eat every kale and other greens in 20 mins. Thanks for compassionate ideas.
Terrible damage from groundhog burrowing under slab foundation for a mobile home. Cracked the cement slab in half. Loaded the mobile home with house flies. While pushing a running lawn mower, I stepped through a chamber, all the way to my crouch, near emasculation. Little monsters!
they like the tender greens of most plants, bc today my little groundhog friend ate the tops off 3 of my biggest baby sunflowers (no flowers on them but they had their first sets of good leaves and nice healhty stalks) he ( or she) chewed them down to the dirt. :( so sad. They also ate some of my new seedling zucchini plants. (once they get bigger they wont bother with zucchini itself, but they love the leaves when it young. I have tried sprinkling blood meal around which seems work a little bit, but rain will wash that away. i wont harm this critter, its been a love hate relationship for almost 6 yrs now at least. It can just be a little frustrating when you've started thing from seed and worked hard to grow them and along comes chucky and he devourers them before they even have a chance to bloom and grow. I am going to try feeding him every day, as he seems to come out around the same times twice a day looking for food. so maybe if i keep him fed and happy, he will b less inclined to eat my plants. then maybe at some point he will go to just the one area where he will realize this is where he gets food, i can hope anyways. He doesn't seem too afraid of me anymore. so ill put the food down and walk far enough away. and see how he reacts. i dont mind sharing if he would let the stuff actually grow lol
That's what I'm trying to do too, I really hope it works because I know she has baby's, so I am just clipping the leaves that need to be pruned and putting some produce that's over it's expired date for us, so a little soft and then I put that in her litter area by her hole and in the wood pile where she chills. I hope this works.
Growing on a farm for a market garden, and in town where I live, this year. And, something has already gotten into the tomatoes (growing for production and to start a seed company) often leaving the plants simply cut towards the base inside a fenced area. I think its a groundhog since their is a burrow in the barn. I haven't even listened to all of the video yet and already bought a battery powered radio online to be delivered tomorrow. I'll finish installing an electric fence asap, too, and do what I can to protect my crops since this is to be a portion of my income. Thanks for making this video!
@@JS-mh1fh I’ve been battling a family of 5-groundhogs,, we have squirrels, rabbits,, you name it. And I’m in a residential neighborhood lol. Thanks for asking💫
@@lauralei6963 I also live residential, garden professionally, a market gardener, and have taught small-scale garden courses. A tip, if you want to try it. Elevate. Install some hooks to grow in hanging baskets and window sills. In these I grow tomatoes, cucamelon/Mexican sour gherkin with fern leaf parsley. Basil in large pots or fabric containers growing beets, radishes, carrots beneath, also herbs and various types of alliums, whether onions, chives, or garlic. I live with raccoons, possums, rabbits, heavy deer populations, squirrels, chipmunks periodic coyotes and foxes, as well as birds that eat my fruits. Happy to give more tips.
@@JS-mh1fh Thank You so much💝 I will definitely try your methods- as it’s becoming increasingly difficult to stay afloat in this gruesome economy😞 Sounds like you are extremely talented & creative🌟 Yes,, I will definitely keep in touch-Thanks Again🥰
Woodchucks or groundhogs ARE NOT cute! What you are holding is a stuffed animal. Mickey Mouse may be cute, but do you like mice running around inside your house? My mood has changed and I’ve crossed over to - eradicate!
I have found, if you take a $3 bag of mortar, pour it in a hole, wet it, it'll harden, and it deters them from coming back. There is always three or four holes you have to find, because they make ways out. Also, keep in the ground wet. They don't like that. Take a hose, poke it in a hole and fill it up. It caves in.
The one I have has dug a hole down the foundation of the front of my house behind my bushes. Its right where my waterline enters my home. I need them to go. I started to play Coyotes sound at the window and try to bother them.., I am going to have my son cut back the bushes on the end so they are more exposed and looking into traps or somewhat to catch them so they wont return
No way will I leave it alone! It’s burrowed under my shed and can’t get to the burrow. It has eaten so many of my perineal plants . This is living here for 3 years. I’ve tried ammonia around the opening to my shed where it runs in. This booger is the size of a medium dog! I want him gone! Can’t find anything that works. No one will come to trap it. I’m just at the point of doing anything to get rid of it
Same here and worse, they're digging has compromised the stone foundation of my entire barn! I'm going to trap and get rid of every stinking one of these "cute" beasts!
With the foundation of my home being burrowed under, I bought a havahart trap & made arrangements for an acquaintance to take it. They're from the South & were delighted to have it for a tasty protein meal. I feel better about it than pushing the problem onto neighbors or releasing it where it'll become someone else's problem. Where I live we are so overrun with them that they are even seen outside the largest grocery stores, running around the outside of the building.
I'm at the same place. I just bought a gamo 22 magnum air rifle with a built in silencer so the neighbors won't hear it. I'll shoot it through the window from inside the house so the neighbors don't see a rifle and get scared.
@@markjohnson8824 ...as luck would have it, my groundhog either died over the winter or made a run for it... Hasn't been seen since last fall... Hallelujah! It's my understanding that in the wild they don't live but maybe 4-5 years. Not sure if that true but I'm so glad it's GONE!
I hear Napalm is pretty effective. But, seriously, what about certain plants that might be a repellent. There's one plant (don't remember the name at the moment) that Deer don't like, and a farmer put up a video insisting since he "fenced off" an area by planting that, the deer haven't returned. I've heard Marigolds don't smell or taste good to certain pest-animals, and planting those will keep Rabbits I think it was, away. Groundhogs are a HUGE problem where I'm at. Suburban area, ranch type apartments with our own patios and planting area around the front door and windows. The dang things come in and dig a burrow right up against the building, and down/under the sidewalk and patio slab, in the process dregging up a MASSIVE pile of dirt/sand into the garden. That's all being scooped out from under the sidewald and patio slab. So, any PLANTS these things abhor that can be planted where they like to dig?
You can go to a hair cutting place and bring a bag with you and ask them for some hair put it garden flower pots or Hows where groundhogs they don't like human hair . I did not think about pee that not heard that I'm a man I can just go out to the groundhogs how an pee round it for the front yard I can just go in a container an dump it round the how thanks for the idea
I discovered that I had groundhogs living under my back deck which is one of those decks that sits on top of the ground. Nothing appears to be damaged but I don't know how much digging they might have done under there. First I thought there was one that I saw another one and then yesterday I saw a total of three of them and two of them ran under and the third one that saw me ran back into the forest, no doubt they are probably eating off my compost pile which I think I'm going to throw cat litter in next time that is soaked with urine. I live in Appalachia and there's tons of wildlife Management areas around here they don't need to be living under my deck. I just don't know when all three of them will be out from underneath the deck and I certainly do not want to be walking on top of where they are walking and they might be carrying some kind of diseases. Yes they do look cute but I don't want them under there. My friend is coming here next week with his 360 camera and he's going to put it under there and see what he can see if they're in there or not.
!!!!??? Ah huh....you just let those cute things live under your buildings for a few years. Once they have made those buildings dilapidated, tell how cute they are.
My neighbor has four chickens and I have recently gone from one groundhog to 5 groundhogs they're everywhere nonchalant have a big hole underneath my back porch.
Hi what do you think I should do about my garden? I think my groundhogs are eating my potatoes which grows underground. It isn’t time to harvest but the stem of my veggie was leaning today. How can I install L shape fence if my garden bed is already laid? Any tips would help
If you plug enough holes they have to relocate themselves though. Plus they have that natural instinct on how to make burrows and find food way better than humans do. Just a thought.
So you can scare it out of its home and block entrance and groundhog will know where to go and what to do. But if you relocate it 5 miles away it won't know what to do or where to go.... Is this because they are home sick? (snickering)
You are wrong. Groundhogs are a problem. When I was working and couldn't trap them consistently they multiplied. They burrowed under barns and the piles of dirt ruined one of the floors. The first year I retired I caught 25 or 26. They may move on but they WILL return, depending on the food sources. The good news is I found a humane way to get rid of them, a havahart trap followed up by a .22 l.r. hollow point between the eyes. (The buzzards love them).
can they dig under a basement? a groundhog has burrowed against my house basement exterior wall. i caught it. no idea if there are little babies around though.
My neighbors and myself have a groundhog we've seen around for the past few years it would be in and out of our back yards, this morning I have 4 babies in my backyard and they are adorable my first garden also and they haven't touched my garden I've let the grass grow so they can eat. I'm in Ohio Akron I'm going to watch them grow. Thank you for this information
She says you cant relocate because they would nt know what to do??? but putting urine and blocking whole supposedly causes them to relocate on their own, How do they know how to relocate in a new area if they cant when you drop them off in the woods.
We Don't cohabitate with groundhogs, they're anything but cute. Have tried to trap them but they are to smart for that. They have destroyed the floor in our shed, so much so they can now get into our shed from underneath. We have only one solution.
This should be titled how to struggle to get rid of groundhogs for decades. We’ve shot 24 this spring and summer. $30l in damages so far. Hopefully getting their population under control now.
They burrow holes, tear up your yard, I have a plastic Rubbermaid shed and it’s falling backwards from there handy work, I say trap them, kill them, get them out!
Very good video I have a mother groundhog and 3 babies under my shed. The babies are adorable I was worried about the foundation under my shed but I’m hoping they leave on there own soon bc the babies got big really quick.
Last year something tunneled under my shed chewed up the cement foundation to get in had no idea what did it. I bought moth balls and stuffed it in the holes and haven't seen any more damage. I just saw a ground hog this morning in a neighbors driveway so I'm thinking this must have been what was in my shed. My dogs have been digging like crazy in my yard so I think they are smelling it under the ground. They also cornered a raccoon last week the raccoon was on the fence going in to my back yard we had quite the Mexican Standoff with it hissing and acting terrible and my dogs not backing down ( 2 dogs a Jack Russell and a Black Lab) I finally clapped my hands and yelled at it enough and got my dogs to back off, he jumped in to the yard and ran up a tree. Oh my we have never had these issues before living in the city. Thankfully none of them have bothered my garden. Good tips. Anna In Ohio
For their size, they are a major destructive pest. Like little bitty feral hogs. We can't have any food plants, and they eat our flowers, too. They graze like deer, a few bits here, some over there, etc. Deer, groundhogs, rabbits, voles, insects, birds. We can grow marigolds, nothing likes them. Various types of cosmos, etc.
There's a groundhog who's addicted to our chicken's food, and will invade the run during the day multiple times to eat it. We have a treadle feeder now because we had a rat infestation IN the run at one point, and after I closed off the run, which is mostly chicken wire and furring strips, it came in through the henhouse nesting box area, freaking out the hens. So I closed the run off completely, and now we've discovered that it broke into the run--I had it cornered up there, looking at the hole in the wall it'd made, when it dashed out through a hole in the door that I didn't see. So it's a large problem, because having a large rodent breaking into the run to eat their food is bad enough, it opens the run for other predators like raccoons, possums, foxes, and weasels to eat the chickens themselves at night! I finally opened up the run and put a large brick on the feeder to keep it closed, and will set a Have A Heart trap tomorrow with fermenting cantaloupe, which I hear they really enjoy, and put it back in the woods behind the run in hopes that the groundhog will go for it instead of their food. It sucks for the hens, though, because they get hungry during the day, so I put food for them on our porch right outside the door, instead, and wonder how long it will be before the groundhog might come there, too. The only burrow I've discovered is across the street, in wilderness next to a creek area, and it roams in multiple backyards on this side of the street. It is cute, but super quick and ravenous and it does not respect boundaries at all.
The only way to get rid of groundhogs especially in Ohio, is too trap them and relocate them more than 5 miles away from your property. There are no natural predators for groundhogs except for automobiles and people to get rid of them.
I've known plenty of animal professionals. Vets and zoologists etc. Never have any of them even hinted at virtue signaling or preaching or condescending in the least way. We see it everywhere today and ultimately there's always a profit/political agenda behind it.
They will never leave. Holes under concrete steps may cause the concrete to settle a foot. I have heard that fresh dog poop in the hole will cause the groundhog to move.
We have a kitchen wire fence around our garden, I thought I was good until I saw a groundhog inside my garden. It ate all my tomatoes and destroyed the plants. There’s no hole around the garden so I have no idea how it got in, maybe the fence isn’t tall enough.
No! I think there very fascinating creatures and I love animals! Just have to keep them out of the garden! Groundhogs actually use the bathroom underground and are very clean! I have one that visits my home and his name is Roscoe lol! I’m going to build him his own garden and then build my own!
Theyre filthy mofos. The 1st sign I had one was flies on the side of my shead & a wild animal odor the lingered. It took 2 yrs before I even saw the dang thing. Long story short it got trapped & it crapped in the cage. It attempted to destroy the trap & had poo just all over the trap trying to bust outta it. Just NASTY tracking poo all over itself!
I’m in Hillsboro Ohio about an hour away from Clark County. I purchased my house in Oct of 2021. It’s 121 years old with a stone foundation. I been seeing a Groundhog in my yard about 60 ft away from my back deck off and on since I been here, well my neighbor told me last month the Groundhog runs under my deck and now there are two of them. I look under the deck and see the burrow hole right next to my Stone Foundation, well I through mothballs in the hole, went to Rural King and picked up two boxes and used a box on the hole,I also took a big stone that looks like it was left over from the House foundation and I covered the hole with it, it was about 20lb rectangular Stone or block knowing full well these little guys are strong enough to move it. Well tonight I heard a big crash outside and I still don’t know what it was, sounded like a limb hit the house, it is windy and raining but it’s night time and I will check in the morn. Anyway I went to the back deck door and the Groundhog ran off the deck under the deck to the burrow, well I looked under there and he has removed some of the stones in my foundation, so now what? Wait for them to enter my crawl space in the small basement. I don’t want these guys in my house and I certainly don’t want them damaging my foundation of this old house. I know full well they are extremely tough to get rid of. I am going to need to trap them and hall them over to Wilmington next to a creek. If they weren’t burrowing next to and eventually into my house I wouldn’t care and would leave them alone but I love my house to much and worked hard for it. I built houses for over 18 years and I know you don’t want foundation damage and I definitely don’t want them in my home. So now what to do? Outside of trapping them and halling them off. When I went under the deck tonight pretty good size stone pieces of my foundation was pulled away about a couple of feet from the house and I can see where they fit in the wall. If he keeps going he will eventually be in the house. It’s an old foundation with broken mortar in the joints which this guy pulled apart then removed the stones. I don’t want to fill in the burrow and have them die in there because it will smell pretty bad. Trapping seems like the only option.
I'm so sick of these animal activists harping about their animal babies! If you don't get rid of the offending animal babies grow up and now you have an infestation. Harmful to pets structures and gardens that is YOUR FOOD SOURCE! GET over yourself lady you are NOT helping!
My shed at my camp has a ground hog it was popping its head up from a brick block we tried to shoot it but we tried to block the entrance but it dug a hole up some where else so we quit because we had to find it at the store 6 stops at the store
No way man. I’ve had the same one for 3 years now. I’ve tried blocking the hole that they have running all the way down the road. They dig around the block. Tried smoke bombs, deterrent, garlic powder, ghost pepper flakes, cat fur, cat pee, dog pee, dog poop, dog chasing it, me chasing it, blood meal, beer, fencing under ground, bird netting… it has eaten my garden 4 times over this year, my neighbors as well.
Now I’m staking out and waiting for him with Mr. Air Rifle. Hate to do it- but I’ve tried everything.
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I hear ya! Tried all of the deterrents that you describe to keep them out of my garden, right down to a 1300 fps pellet rifle. Although it worked amazingly well, I hated spending hours sitting and waiting for them in the morning and evenings taking up my free time. I looked like a military sniper hiding out in the brush in my own yard. I also didn't like shooting them because some of them would run off and die. I hated that. So now I use Dukes Body Traps. They are like the Ronco oven, set it and forget it and check it the next day. To me they are humane because death is within 5 to 30 seconds depending on their size. I have no problem protecting what is mine. The garden is mine, not to mention the time and sweat it took to put it in. And I didn't do it for a groundhog smorgasbord.
did you get it?
@@faultyd3vil917 sadly…. No. He’s too fast and I just can’t get close enough. Next season gonna have to try trapping I guess
I have a groundhog destroying my garden currently for the last month in Missouri. He has eaten all the tops off the carrots, is eating potato leaves and digging in them, tramples all my green onions and bites the tops off, has destroyed a couple pepper and tomato plants, has been eating leeks off my other onions and trampling them too. Has eaten all the vegetation off my Broccoli, ate my only summer savory, he’s a real a’hole! I sprinkled some cayenne pepper around the area tonight because I hear it offends them. Will put up a chicken wire fence soon, this lil effer is not gonna win! Feel like Bill Murray in Caddyshack.
Me too
Feels like bill murray
I have the same problem!!!I hate them!!! I have tried everything that this woman has said for two summers. I want them to die!!! I even put chicken wire fence up but they dig under it!! I put a hose in the den that didn’t work. I now am getting a pellet gun. Maybe after being shot in the ass a couple times they will move on!!!!
I have a garden for past 40 years , nothing will stop a ground hog from raiding your garden , fence will not work , only trapping them and relocating them a few miles away . if there is food source they love , they will get it .
plant extra...for them
I have the same problem. I may have to pick another hobby besides gardening, although we depend on the food raised.
Upstate SC here. We have 3 big dogs that have access to our fenced in over acre back yard. Only a few trees. One is a persimmon and one is a huge mulberry. These trees are a natural part of landscape in our area. Grows wild in a forest across from us. The groundhogs have tunneled under our wrought iron fence and obviously don't mind being around our dogs or people. There are new burrows still popping up. We are going to need to regrade our back yard to repair where tunnels have collapsed and caused trouble with wash out of area. Last year I thought they were cute critters. Now I absolutely hate them. I'm so afraid either a grandchild or one of the dogs will break a leg due to the damage. Not to mention our yard service guys. Nuisance is a hole or two. What it seems we have is a colony. But worst than that it makes no sense when there is pasture land and other open areas just beside our property. Yet...here they are. 2 of my dobermans don't want to go into yard early morning or late afternoon any longer. These are not adorable little fuzzy critters I thought they were. They are mean as snakes and none of the things mentioned here ring true with the ones we have. It is going to cost us a fortune to eradicate and repair. In SC there is no option to catch and release. If you catch them you by law must kill them.
I’m in SC trying to get them out from under my house now
"cute?" The damage they do is not "cute" it's costly
Guess I'll hook up my lawn mower with a hose on the exhaust, stick it down the hole and let it run
Groundhogs have eaten all my brassica, beans, pickles along with my herbs. By leaving them alone they have multiplied and have become a major problem. I shoot them when I can but those monsters are fast.
Fat Asses too smh 😒
Fatty's They're So big & Fat !!!!! Smh 😒
yeah, hence why this is a useless video. She' just a hippie.
I have one destroying my brassica food plot, I have a trap set and all holes but one blocked so I should have him this evening when I get home! Seen him run in hole so I moved trap when I seen where he ran off in his hole
Try throwing a bar of Irish Spring soap down the hole, and use a watering can periodically to freshen it up.
This might be the worst advice I have ever heard about destructive varmints.
I agree
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Ok, I'm here because I have a family of groundhogs, my husband and I don't mind them, in fact we think they are adorable. The only problem we have is they are starting to dig under my chickens fence lol I didn't know they don't like chickens. They aren't after my chickens, they are after green grass inside my run. Thanks for this, I won't kill them like most people would. I appreciate your share, humane to the animals, it's my priority ♥️
Thank you for not killing them. They are cute.
Thanks. I have a groundhog here in VA but so far it’s not a nuisance. I guess I should look for burrow entrances.
If you have one, eventually they’ll be 5 of em.
Thank you. So far the groundhogs in my yard leave tomatoes alone, but a baby slipped thru the gate to eat every kale and other greens in 20 mins. Thanks for compassionate ideas.
Terrible damage from groundhog burrowing under slab foundation for a mobile home. Cracked the cement slab in half. Loaded the mobile home with house flies. While pushing a running lawn mower, I stepped through a chamber, all the way to my crouch, near emasculation. Little monsters!
A .22 rifle does wonders for groundhog control.
You have concerns. My bldg is being destroyed and you “have concerns”. Tell that to a farmer.
I like dynamite myself or a hyperbaric bomb . Instantly eliminate the problem and then you can landscape the way you want
I also like Caddyshack!
Good ole 17 hornet or 22-250 helps them cash in their life insurance fast.
How can I be certain there are no babies in the burrow which is under my porch. It is late September right now and it’s just moved in.
shot gun works
22 Marlin right outta my upstairs window!
220 Conibear
they like the tender greens of most plants, bc today my little groundhog friend ate the tops off 3 of my biggest baby sunflowers (no flowers on them but they had their first sets of good leaves and nice healhty stalks) he ( or she) chewed them down to the dirt. :( so sad. They also ate some of my new seedling zucchini plants. (once they get bigger they wont bother with zucchini itself, but they love the leaves when it young. I have tried sprinkling blood meal around which seems work a little bit, but rain will wash that away. i wont harm this critter, its been a love hate relationship for almost 6 yrs now at least. It can just be a little frustrating when you've started thing from seed and worked hard to grow them and along comes chucky and he devourers them before they even have a chance to bloom and grow. I am going to try feeding him every day, as he seems to come out around the same times twice a day looking for food. so maybe if i keep him fed and happy, he will b less inclined to eat my plants. then maybe at some point he will go to just the one area where he will realize this is where he gets food, i can hope anyways. He doesn't seem too afraid of me anymore. so ill put the food down and walk far enough away. and see how he reacts. i dont mind sharing if he would let the stuff actually grow lol
That's what I'm trying to do too, I really hope it works because I know she has baby's, so I am just clipping the leaves that need to be pruned and putting some produce that's over it's expired date for us, so a little soft and then I put that in her litter area by her hole and in the wood pile where she chills. I hope this works.
Growing on a farm for a market garden, and in town where I live, this year. And, something has already gotten into the tomatoes (growing for production and to start a seed company) often leaving the plants simply cut towards the base inside a fenced area. I think its a groundhog since their is a burrow in the barn. I haven't even listened to all of the video yet and already bought a battery powered radio online to be delivered tomorrow. I'll finish installing an electric fence asap, too, and do what I can to protect my crops since this is to be a portion of my income. Thanks for making this video!
@@JS-mh1fh Sadly that’s why I can’t start a garden. It’ll draw all the unwanted pests😩
@@lauralei6963 do you know what the pests are?
@@JS-mh1fh I’ve been battling a family of 5-groundhogs,, we have squirrels, rabbits,, you name it. And I’m in a residential neighborhood lol. Thanks for asking💫
@@lauralei6963 I also live residential, garden professionally, a market gardener, and have taught small-scale garden courses. A tip, if you want to try it. Elevate. Install some hooks to grow in hanging baskets and window sills. In these I grow tomatoes, cucamelon/Mexican sour gherkin with fern leaf parsley. Basil in large pots or fabric containers growing beets, radishes, carrots beneath, also herbs and various types of alliums, whether onions, chives, or garlic. I live with raccoons, possums, rabbits, heavy deer populations, squirrels, chipmunks periodic coyotes and foxes, as well as birds that eat my fruits. Happy to give more tips.
@@JS-mh1fh Thank You so much💝 I will definitely try your methods- as it’s becoming increasingly difficult to stay afloat in this gruesome economy😞 Sounds like you are extremely talented & creative🌟 Yes,, I will definitely keep in touch-Thanks Again🥰
They eat petunias and pansies too. Y poor flowers. Gone. I expect them to bloom bigger in a month. Best way to get rid of them is a bow and arrow.
Woodchucks or groundhogs ARE NOT cute! What you are holding is a stuffed animal. Mickey Mouse may be cute, but do you like mice running around inside your house? My mood has changed and I’ve crossed over to - eradicate!
The babies are cute though 😍
Exactly, they look like rats with short tails. That is a very strange statement to say. 😳
Groundhogs are not running around in her house. Terrible analogy.
@@esaabdullah2710 Spring has sprung and yesterday I saw our big, fat woodchuck. I will give it a chance to be live-trapped and relocated or else …
No they're not! I thought I just had rabbit burrows but just seen a big FAT Groundhog now!!!! So annoying!!!
They ruined my neighbors foundation. I went from pcp pellet to 22 LR! There's no more on my block!😂
Thanks. My folks have a huge problem with these critters and nothing is working to get rid of them
Thing is how is anyone supposed to know there’s babies in there?
In the mean time it’s.eating all my flowers and holes under my step.
My problem is I don’t want my dog to run after them and get himself bit
I have found, if you take a $3 bag of mortar, pour it in a hole, wet it, it'll harden, and it deters them from coming back. There is always three or four holes you have to find, because they make ways out. Also, keep in the ground wet. They don't like that. Take a hose, poke it in a hole and fill it up. It caves in.
The one I have has dug a hole down the foundation of the front of my house behind my bushes. Its right where my waterline enters my home. I need them to go. I started to play Coyotes sound at the window and try to bother them.., I am going to have my son cut back the bushes on the end so they are more exposed and looking into traps or somewhat to catch them so they wont return
What about when they destroy and eat most of your vegetables? Still leave them alone? That's a BS!!!
22 or 25 pcp pellet rifle works every time.👀
Indeed, there certainly is not a shortage of these critters.
Right about that. I got rid of mine that way. No more groundhogs here.
High powered pellet gun
No way will I leave it alone! It’s burrowed under my shed and can’t get to the burrow. It has eaten so many of my perineal plants . This is living here for 3 years. I’ve tried ammonia around the opening to my shed where it runs in. This booger is the size of a medium dog! I want him gone! Can’t find anything that works. No one will come to trap it. I’m just at the point of doing anything to get rid of it
Same here and worse, they're digging has compromised the stone foundation of my entire barn! I'm going to trap and get rid of every stinking one of these "cute" beasts!
With the foundation of my home being burrowed under, I bought a havahart trap & made arrangements for an acquaintance to take it. They're from the South & were delighted to have it for a tasty protein meal. I feel better about it than pushing the problem onto neighbors or releasing it where it'll become someone else's problem. Where I live we are so overrun with them that they are even seen outside the largest grocery stores, running around the outside of the building.
Just kill it
I'm at the same place. I just bought a gamo 22 magnum air rifle with a built in silencer so the neighbors won't hear it. I'll shoot it through the window from inside the house so the neighbors don't see a rifle and get scared.
@@markjohnson8824 ...as luck would have it, my groundhog either died over the winter or made a run for it... Hasn't been seen since last fall... Hallelujah! It's my understanding that in the wild they don't live but maybe 4-5 years. Not sure if that true but I'm so glad it's GONE!
I hear Napalm is pretty effective. But, seriously, what about certain plants that might be a repellent. There's one plant (don't remember the name at the moment) that Deer don't like, and a farmer put up a video insisting since he "fenced off" an area by planting that, the deer haven't returned.
I've heard Marigolds don't smell or taste good to certain pest-animals, and planting those will keep Rabbits I think it was, away.
Groundhogs are a HUGE problem where I'm at. Suburban area, ranch type apartments with our own patios and planting area around the front door and windows. The dang things come in and dig a burrow right up against the building, and down/under the sidewalk and patio slab, in the process dregging up a MASSIVE pile of dirt/sand into the garden. That's all being scooped out from under the sidewald and patio slab.
So, any PLANTS these things abhor that can be planted where they like to dig?
Anything from Plants VS Zombies, Seymour, bomb flowers, piranha plants, whomping willow, or for the faithful among us the burning bush.
Begonias will not be eaten by them.
You can go to a hair cutting place and bring a bag with you and ask them for some hair put it garden flower pots or Hows where groundhogs they don't like human hair . I did not think about pee that not heard that I'm a man I can just go out to the groundhogs how an pee round it for the front yard I can just go in a container an dump it round the how thanks for the idea
My groundhog is decimating my garden!
A Duke 220 conibear solved my hog hound problem in less than 3 hours.
I discovered that I had groundhogs living under my back deck which is one of those decks that sits on top of the ground. Nothing appears to be damaged but I don't know how much digging they might have done under there. First I thought there was one that I saw another one and then yesterday I saw a total of three of them and two of them ran under and the third one that saw me ran back into the forest, no doubt they are probably eating off my compost pile which I think I'm going to throw cat litter in next time that is soaked with urine. I live in Appalachia and there's tons of wildlife Management areas around here they don't need to be living under my deck. I just don't know when all three of them will be out from underneath the deck and I certainly do not want to be walking on top of where they are walking and they might be carrying some kind of diseases. Yes they do look cute but I don't want them under there. My friend is coming here next week with his 360 camera and he's going to put it under there and see what he can see if they're in there or not.
Question if I blast heavy metal down will it move on faster
!!!!??? Ah huh....you just let those cute things live under your buildings for a few years. Once they have made those buildings dilapidated, tell how cute they are.
My neighbor has four chickens and I have recently gone from one groundhog to 5 groundhogs they're everywhere nonchalant have a big hole underneath my back porch.
really interesting information
GH dug into my coop and drank water i guess. Ate from my garden.. Dug under my garage.. Caused alot of damage
when I brush my collies I use the hair around my dahlias so they don't eat them
Hi what do you think I should do about my garden? I think my groundhogs are eating my potatoes which grows underground. It isn’t time to harvest but the stem of my veggie was leaning today. How can I install L shape fence if my garden bed is already laid? Any tips would help
If you plug enough holes they have to relocate themselves though. Plus they have that natural instinct on how to make burrows and find food way better than humans do. Just a thought.
Actually they simply dig around the plug.
There is no way to check that burrow to make sure no one is there.
So you can scare it out of its home and block entrance and groundhog will know where to go and what to do. But if you relocate it 5 miles away it won't know what to do or where to go.... Is this because they are home sick? (snickering)
Chooootem!
You are wrong. Groundhogs are a problem. When I was working and couldn't trap them consistently they multiplied. They burrowed under barns and the piles of dirt ruined one of the floors. The first year I retired I caught 25 or 26. They may move on but they WILL return, depending on the food sources. The good news is I found a humane way to get rid of them, a havahart trap followed up by a .22 l.r. hollow point between the eyes. (The buzzards love them).
"Buzzards gotta eat same as the worm", The outlaw Josey Wales
lol that was a plot twist
can they dig under a basement? a groundhog has burrowed against my house basement exterior wall. i caught it. no idea if there are little babies around though.
Wow what a badass 😂😂
Hello from NH. What did you bait the trap with?. I've got one ruining my garden. Thank you. ~ Diane
My neighbors and myself have a groundhog we've seen around for the past few years it would be in and out of our back yards, this morning I have 4 babies in my backyard and they are adorable my first garden also and they haven't touched my garden I've let the grass grow so they can eat. I'm in Ohio Akron I'm going to watch them grow. Thank you for this information
She says you cant relocate because they would nt know what to do??? but putting urine and blocking whole supposedly causes them to relocate on their own, How do they know how to relocate in a new area if they cant when you drop them off in the woods.
We Don't cohabitate with groundhogs, they're anything but cute. Have tried to trap them but they are to smart for that. They have destroyed the floor in our shed, so much so they can now get into our shed from underneath. We have only one solution.
I feel this is the city’s problem we pay taxes and if we don’t they throw us out they should be responsible for removing this animals I’m pissed.
They burrow near building. Yhis includes your house. When they burrow near you home it weakens your foundation and can cause it to crack and fail.
This is nonsense and no help to anyone with a pest problem.
This should be titled how to struggle to get rid of groundhogs for decades. We’ve shot 24 this spring and summer. $30l in damages so far. Hopefully getting their population under control now.
They burrow holes, tear up your yard, I have a plastic Rubbermaid shed and it’s falling backwards from there handy work, I say trap them, kill them, get them out!
sure when their destroying your sweet corn everyday i will just leave them that makes a lot of since
Very good video I have a mother groundhog and 3 babies under my shed. The babies are adorable I was worried about the foundation under my shed but I’m hoping they leave on there own soon bc the babies got big really quick.
Last year something tunneled under my shed chewed up the cement foundation to get in had no idea what did it. I bought moth balls and stuffed it in the holes and haven't seen any more damage. I just saw a ground hog this morning in a neighbors driveway so I'm thinking this must have been what was in my shed. My dogs have been digging like crazy in my yard so I think they are smelling it under the ground. They also cornered a raccoon last week the raccoon was on the fence going in to my back yard we had quite the Mexican Standoff with it hissing and acting terrible and my dogs not backing down ( 2 dogs a Jack Russell and a Black Lab) I finally clapped my hands and yelled at it enough and got my dogs to back off, he jumped in to the yard and ran up a tree. Oh my we have never had these issues before living in the city. Thankfully none of them have bothered my garden. Good tips. Anna In Ohio
For their size, they are a major destructive pest. Like little bitty feral hogs. We can't have any food plants, and they eat our flowers, too. They graze like deer, a few bits here, some over there, etc. Deer, groundhogs, rabbits, voles, insects, birds. We can grow marigolds, nothing likes them. Various types of cosmos, etc.
There's a groundhog who's addicted to our chicken's food, and will invade the run during the day multiple times to eat it. We have a treadle feeder now because we had a rat infestation IN the run at one point, and after I closed off the run, which is mostly chicken wire and furring strips, it came in through the henhouse nesting box area, freaking out the hens. So I closed the run off completely, and now we've discovered that it broke into the run--I had it cornered up there, looking at the hole in the wall it'd made, when it dashed out through a hole in the door that I didn't see. So it's a large problem, because having a large rodent breaking into the run to eat their food is bad enough, it opens the run for other predators like raccoons, possums, foxes, and weasels to eat the chickens themselves at night! I finally opened up the run and put a large brick on the feeder to keep it closed, and will set a Have A Heart trap tomorrow with fermenting cantaloupe, which I hear they really enjoy, and put it back in the woods behind the run in hopes that the groundhog will go for it instead of their food. It sucks for the hens, though, because they get hungry during the day, so I put food for them on our porch right outside the door, instead, and wonder how long it will be before the groundhog might come there, too. The only burrow I've discovered is across the street, in wilderness next to a creek area, and it roams in multiple backyards on this side of the street. It is cute, but super quick and ravenous and it does not respect boundaries at all.
Groundhog has destroyed my garage floor. Dug huge holes under the deck by the basement wall. They are VERY destructive.
Wow! She is out of touch! NOT CUTE! They are a problem.
The only way to get rid of groundhogs especially in Ohio, is too trap them and relocate them more than 5 miles away from your property. There are no natural predators for groundhogs except for automobiles and people to get rid of them.
I got a great idea. Come and take them to your house!!!!!!
I've known plenty of animal professionals. Vets and zoologists etc. Never have any of them even hinted at virtue signaling or preaching or condescending in the least way. We see it everywhere today and ultimately there's always a profit/political agenda behind it.
They will never leave. Holes under concrete steps may cause the concrete to settle a foot. I have heard that fresh dog poop in the hole will cause the groundhog to move.
Nope I tried that
Sooo helpful!! Thank you!☺️
They got to go before I have a horse break a leg. They have holes all over the horse pasture
We have a kitchen wire fence around our garden, I thought I was good until I saw a groundhog inside my garden. It ate all my tomatoes and destroyed the plants. There’s no hole around the garden so I have no idea how it got in, maybe the fence isn’t tall enough.
they can climb the fence
I watched my demon ground hog climb a 4 foot fence. Destroyed my entire vegetable garden in one night.
I need them out of my garden.
CCI 22 LR
They gross me out
No! I think there very fascinating creatures and I love animals! Just have to keep them out of the garden! Groundhogs actually use the bathroom underground and are very clean! I have one that visits my home and his name is Roscoe lol! I’m going to build him his own garden and then build my own!
Theyre filthy mofos. The 1st sign I had one was flies on the side of my shead & a wild animal odor the lingered. It took 2 yrs before I even saw the dang thing. Long story short it got trapped & it crapped in the cage. It attempted to destroy the trap & had poo just all over the trap trying to bust outta it. Just NASTY tracking poo all over itself!
Trap it, cook it,and eat it.
Ohio
I must dig deep inside of myself to feel humane towards groundhogs🤕😡😡😡
They DESTROY small food gardens in a single day!
Attack with extreme prejudice
I’m in Hillsboro Ohio about an hour away from Clark County. I purchased my house in Oct of 2021. It’s 121 years old with a stone foundation. I been seeing a Groundhog in my yard about 60 ft away from my back deck off and on since I been here, well my neighbor told me last month the Groundhog runs under my deck and now there are two of them. I look under the deck and see the burrow hole right next to my Stone Foundation, well I through mothballs in the hole, went to Rural King and picked up two boxes and used a box on the hole,I also took a big stone that looks like it was left over from the House foundation and I covered the hole with it, it was about 20lb rectangular Stone or block knowing full well these little guys are strong enough to move it. Well tonight I heard a big crash outside and I still don’t know what it was, sounded like a limb hit the house, it is windy and raining but it’s night time and I will check in the morn. Anyway I went to the back deck door and the Groundhog ran off the deck under the deck to the burrow, well I looked under there and he has removed some of the stones in my foundation, so now what? Wait for them to enter my crawl space in the small basement. I don’t want these guys in my house and I certainly don’t want them damaging my foundation of this old house. I know full well they are extremely tough to get rid of. I am going to need to trap them and hall them over to Wilmington next to a creek. If they weren’t burrowing next to and eventually into my house I wouldn’t care and would leave them alone but I love my house to much and worked hard for it. I built houses for over 18 years and I know you don’t want foundation damage and I definitely don’t want them in my home. So now what to do? Outside of trapping them and halling them off. When I went under the deck tonight pretty good size stone pieces of my foundation was pulled away about a couple of feet from the house and I can see where they fit in the wall. If he keeps going he will eventually be in the house. It’s an old foundation with broken mortar in the joints which this guy pulled apart then removed the stones. I don’t want to fill in the burrow and have them die in there because it will smell pretty bad. Trapping seems like the only option.
The groundhog problem I have is that they are digging into the basement
They ate all my flowers!
Just caught one in my backyard
I'm so sick of these animal activists harping about their animal babies! If you don't get rid of the offending animal babies grow up and now you have an infestation. Harmful to pets structures and gardens that is YOUR FOOD SOURCE! GET over yourself lady you are NOT helping!
We love you! Thank you!
Thanks god bless
easier to just pee all over your garden every day
Forget the humane method.... I catch and KILL!
I feel like Bill Murray from Caddyshack since a groundhog showed up in my yard. Trapper cant catch it. Hes too smart.
Wait until it has babies and they crawl under your car and chew the wires in half like they just did to me you will really love them then
I catch mine in a havahart and then take it swimming. They are very destructive for us farmers.😢
Mine are too smart for this trap.
It’s eating my green bean leaves. Plant killer!!
There is nothing cute about those 😡
Those groundhogs ate ate almost all my husband's cucumbers smh
A Rat Terrier would get rid of the groundhogs.
A Conibear 220 trap will solve your problem real quick!!!!
MOTH BALLS IN PACKETS ?
Nothing likes mothballs, but they melt from the rain. Just like solid deer repellant.
I thought they were cute until they breached my electric perimeter garden fence. I trapped and deported 9 then poured ammonia down their holes.
pour cement into the hole that worked for me
they're eating all my Crops Eggplants or all my Veggies & Fruits
This is such bad advise lmao
Grossly incompetent on full display
My shed at my camp has a ground hog it was popping its head up from a brick block we tried to shoot it but we tried to block the entrance but it dug a hole up some where else so we quit because we had to find it at the store 6 stops at the store
LEAD POISION KILLEM EVERY TIME!!!!!