Varmit Cong is back!

[learnteach]

Dangit! He got the two summer squash; ate the roots, left the rest to rot. That's it; it's trap time.

Comments

[kawgirl.livejournal.com]

Oh no! I've not planted anything because I've seen the deer in the yard. I might try some tomatoes, though. They don't seem to eat tomatoes.

I hope you have better luck witht he Varmit Cong than McNamara did with the Viet Cong!

[ladybrid.livejournal.com]

oh pooh, I should have saved the gopher skull (found today) for you to make an anti-kong totem with... but it gave me a start leering out of the green waste pile and I made it get thrown away.

Oh noes!

[dakini-bones.livejournal.com]

Live trap or deceased?

Neither. Irritation!

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

...I just can't kill someone because we disagree (although the varmit is testing me. Perhaps Ghod sent him?) All he eat is the roots. All I eat is the fruit. Alas, the roots are tender long before the fruit is.

I have the gopher noisemakers; one from last year, and a new spiffy solar powered one! Yay technology! I hope they work. Otherwise, I might have to go mano a pocketgophero. And borrow someone's dog...

Until then, the spikes stuck in the ground will buzz and click intermittantly. Designed to turn every gopher into a jumpy angsty unable to cope in MY yard rodent.

(My karma allows a dog, Ma!)

Re: Neither. Irritation!

[shutt3rg33k.livejournal.com]

We can work something out with tethering Nanook in your back yard for a bit.

[dame-cordelia.livejournal.com]

I have heard of burying wire cages that have holes too small for a gopher to squeese through and then planting within the cage. I think chicken wire would be too large a hole for a gopher, and I haven't gotten to figuring out what wire would work to keep one out. Not that this is helpful for this season, but maybe for future.