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Wonderful article, I'm pinching back today. You mentioned trying to keep some of the cukes for yourself, we have a similar problem with a woodchuck that likes to eat our grape tomatoes growing in an old washing machine washtub. This critter will even come up on the deck when we have guests and they are amazed by the size of him. Probably got so big by eating my produce! Good luck with the cukes! Mittsy
Those groundhogs are really something. We've had fat groundhogs waddle right up to the patio door on our deck too. This summer, an especially pesky one pruned back some nasturtiums growing by the door and ate 12 "replacement" cucumber seedlings down to nubs. grrrr I'm not sure if he's still under the deck or if I've managed to drive him off, but I don't think he's had any cukes this week, so maybe he's sticking to the corn in the field behind us now.
Think we all have pests. I don't think we have groundhogs but I have millions of jack rabbits this year and bunnies, javalina, deer, gophers, prairie dogs, raccoons, birds and desert tortoises. The tortoises can clear a row of baby squash plants before you know they are there. None of them eat many herbs which is a blessing! I love your articles. Think this is the best of many good ideas Dave has implemented recently!
