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Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now about to become the Masters champion
By adamg on Sun, 08/05/2007 - 9:24pm
Nobody messes with Moe's garden. So when woodchucks started feasting on it and moth balls failed to keep them away, Jeff got all Caddyshack on them:
... I poured tiki torch fuel down their hole and set it on fire. Then I set some mothballs on fire and rolled those down the hole too.
While I didn't manage to start a forest fire, I did accidentally catch a few stray logs on fire. Thankfully the watering can was there to fight them. ...
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Interesting...
I just pulled a ripe jalapeno from my garden and tossed it towards my groundhog's hole a few days ago. I haven't seen him since.
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We have an ginormous groundhog/wood chuck we call "Wilfred Brimley".
I'd burn it out of its home, except it has burrowed a little back entrance into our rather spacious garden shed.
Last year I grew super duper hot Thai chillies - the tiny ones that grow on fuses, or so it would seem. I used them in sauces as they were too hot to really even cut.
When the first one got perfectly ripe, I went out to pick it. Only half of it was there.
That #*(*&#^# Woodchuck!
Then I realized there was a story here:
Only half the pepper was there, still hanging on the plant.
The tooth grooves in the pepper were very rodenty (wide flat teeth)
There were seriously gouged out areas in the soil next to the plant, as if something very suddenly felt it had to jump away with great force.
BWAHAHAHAH! I didn't lose a single pepper OR tomato the rest of the year.
This year I have lost a couple tomatos, but there is evidence that racoons are rebounding. There is also His Extreme Fuzzy Cuteness Spy Fox, our eastern gray fox friend, who sometimes acts like Fire Fox when it comes to browsing berries and cherry tomatos.
I don't think he's been bugging Wilfred, though. I think Wilfred close to outweighs him (eastern gray foxes are pretty much large cat sized - 10-14 lbs).