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Charlie Nardozzi addresses one of the most persistent of pests; the woodchuck. Learn a no-nonsense approach for ridding your landscape of woodchucks, and glean some helpful hints to get your peeking plants to buck up.
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Transcript
I'm Charlie Nardozzi and here are some thoughts from my garden journal How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood? I don't know. But they sure can chuck a lot of my beans, greens, flowers, and carrots.
The woodchuck, groundhog, or whistling pig lives in burrows near open fields or woody edges. They also can take up residence under a porch, wood pile, or deck. Out in an open field they won't cause much damage, but if they find your garden, watch out. When my daughter was younger we had a baby woodchuck in our yard and she begged me not to bother it. I didn't, but as it grew fat, our summer garden grew thin. If you're going to coexist with a woodchuck, be ready to plant things they won't eat, like tomatoes and garlic.
To control the occasional visitor try repellent sprays such as cayenne or garlic. However, to really get rid of woodchuck you'll need a fence...
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