Now its personal; Waging war on the groundhog!

Posted on Friday, August 24, 2007 at 11:05

I was feeling sorry for the groundhog because of the drought and heatwave that we are suffering with. There is very little water or food available in the wild. I had almost even forgiven him for eating all of our bean leaves, all of the cucumber leaves, some tomatoes and zucchini and all of the zucchini leaves. But now he has gone too far. He has crossed the line! He has begun eating my beautiful pumpkin plants!

Come on Mr. Woodchuck, at least let a man grow some big pumpkins for his children to enjoy carving! I haven't even gotten around to putting a post on about the pumpkins.

I purposely started them late so they wouldn't get too big too soon. They are at the end of the garden and I am letting them grow out onto old carpet and tarps.

Things were growing along great and we had a dozen or so baby pumpkins.

Many of them had grown much bigger that this photo, but now Mr. Groundhog has eaten them and some of the leaves! It's time to declare war. We loaned our Have-a-heart trap to my Father-in-law and we are getting it back tomorrow night. At the rate the groundhog is going though, that's too long to wait.

Sometimes a gardener has got to do what a gardener has got to do. I must sit out in the garden all night and all day tomorrow and make sure the groundhog doesn't eat anything else!

Of course I can't really do that, so Mary and Laura and I whipped up a quick likeness of me, set it next to the pumpkins with a 24-hour-a-day talk radio station loudly playing. Ma added soap to the scarecrow to add more "human smell". I hope it works.

Tomorrow night we will set the Have-a-heart trap and hopefully on Sunday, Mr. Woodchuck and I will take a nice long drive to his new home.

 Get ready Chuckie, soon it will be moving day!

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Posted by rellamom on Friday, August 24, 2007 at 11:56 - Link

LOVED the pictures... and LAUGHED at how you ended your entry. :-)

Carrie