imple Vegetarian | Groundhog Fence 2.0

Well, in reality, it's miles extra like Groundhog Fence 1.1, considering that we did no longer replace the vintage fence, sincerely introduced at once to it.

Some of you may preserve in mind that years ago, after placing up a fence to hold our resident groundhog out of our garden, we determined that he changed into clearly a she, and her little baby groundhogs have been small enough to squeeze via the gaps within the garden fence. Fortunately, in advance than lengthy they grew to an cheaper length, however now not earlier than munching our zucchini seedlings proper up. Last year we saved a sharp eye out, however no greater toddler groundhogs confirmed up and we best saw grownup ones from time to time, so we figured perhaps that they had moved out. But nope?This past Friday, clearly as we had been approximately to go away for the weekend, we noticed little furballs (observed with the resource of a mama furball) munching on weeds inside the yard, and after looking them surreptitiously for a couple of minutes, superb sufficient, we noticed considered certainly one of them squeeze proper via the fence into the garden. And of direction, in view that we needed to depart in an hour or so, there was no time to do something about it.

However, upon returning in recent times to discover the lawn not too badly ravaged in our absence (multiple pea flora have been munched down, and one of the zucchini leaves torn up a bit, but the complete component else seemed intact), we decided it modified into time to stop them on the identical time as we nonetheless could. So we motored off to the neighborhood massive field keep and collected more than one rolls of chicken twine with a 1-inch mesh. We figure any critter small enough to squeeze thru that probably isn't always going to be out on its own.

Our Groundhog Fence 1.Zero have become a three-foot tall manufacturing of rectangular cord mesh, with a one-foot

As it turns out, we were wise to brave the blazing sun and deal with this promptly, rather than putting it off until tomorrow as we originally thought we might. No sooner had we finished the job (and washed off the sunscreen with which we'd slathered ourselves—why is it that the "natural" kind is so particularly gooey and gross?) than we looked out the window and saw not two, but four little baby groundhogs foraging in the yard under the attentive eye of Mama Groundhog. So it looks like we dodged a bullet there.

Just try and get at our pepper plants now, you little marmots!