Pests: Groundhog help

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MaypopLaurel Cleveland,GA/Atlanta, GA(Zone 7b) Aug 14, 2011

These are wild pears (what happens when seed from a grafted tree lands somewhere else) and are as hard as apples. I've heard you can make jam out of them. We watch the squirrels put a whole one in their mouth and run off. How do they do that? They have literally gone out on a limb and fallen out of the tree with their pears. Apparently they are not good at estimating their weight plus that of the pear. The dogs love it when that happens.

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woodspirit1 Lake Toxaway, NC(Zone 7a) Aug 23, 2011

I got some rat poison and used an iced tea spoon to insert it way down in the hole. I only did this once and never saw them again.
About the woodchucks, ground hogs or whistle pigs depending where you live, years they used dynamite to blow up holes deep enough to make a hole to plant fruit trees in. Then I read further and found that they also stuck dynamite down groundhog holes.

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MaypopLaurel Cleveland,GA/Atlanta, GA(Zone 7b) Aug 24, 2011

That's more extreme gardening than I'm into.

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SusanKC Shawnee Mission, KS(Zone 6a) Aug 25, 2011

I'm seconding that. Not to mention that there is not telling what or who else got into it.

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woodspirit1 Lake Toxaway, NC(Zone 7a) Aug 25, 2011

That was a little "tongue in cheek." I was reearching a photographer that lived in this are from about 1897 - 1903. He was also an arborist, first in Michigan, then Florida, then in NC.
This is him in the picture. Who does he look like to you?

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elsie Aug 25, 2011

Paul Newman?

I am amazed that this thread has resurfaced again. This was one of my first posts.

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woodspirit1 Lake Toxaway, NC(Zone 7a) Aug 28, 2011

His name is Henry Scadin. He was born in the 1860s and died in the 1920s, only 60 years old. I read all his diaries from 1885 until his death. He wrote nearly every day and ordinary life seems extraorinary to us now.

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