Any suggestions on how to keep groundhogs out of my garden?

Last year they got most of our garden, and we're hoping to avoid a repeat. We've tried spraying the plants with hot sauce and garlic, which didn't do anything. Plus, our cat is scared of them since they're bigger than he is. I've heard that human hair can help, or burying soap in the garden. Any input on those, or any other solutions?

Any suggestions on how to keep groundhogs out of my garden?
We have a good live trap and we bait it with the cut off base of leaf lettuce. Number seven this season is in it as we speak. I thought we only had three! After trapping them, I call the city to take them away. Groundhogs can be very destructive and I think that a lot of the damage that's attributed to rabbits is actually caused by them.





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Reply:Find yourself a stray cat. Make a pet out of it and let it out to roam your property. Cats soon learn property lines and are very territorial.





My neighbor had a ground hog problem but my wife keeps four cats. My neighbor feed our cats once or twice, so they go into her yard often. By the way she no longer has a groundhog problem, although her husband had to bury the carcasses.
Reply:Place salt or insecticides in the holes as a


deterrence.








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Reply:Many states have "Pest Collection" laws. In short, you can kill them whenever you want. A .22 calber would do fine if you're somewhere where you could do this safely.


Cat waste works well. My cats have made their own litter box in a bed near where Groundhogs dug under the fence to come in, and voila, no more groundhogs. If it came to a head to head battle though, the smart money says the groundhog wins.
Reply:lay chicken wire down in a trenched out area before replacing the dirt and planting, to be very secure bring the chicken wire up along the edges from beneath the dirt to create a three or four foot wall preventing hopping creatures from entering the garden too.
Reply:I have read that burying used kitty litter along the path that they used will scare them away.
Reply:try putting cyanne pepper in their holes