Re: [aroid-l] Woodchuck problem

From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt at hort.net> on 2004.07.24 at 09:25:56(11797) That does surprise me. The ones that used to live here never climbed anything! Amazing. You just never know with critters; they, like plants are a constant source of new knowledge. Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland mtalt@hort.net +More Editor: Gardening in Shade ----------------------------------------------- Current Article: Corydalis http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/shade_gardening ------------------------------------------------ Complete Index of Articles by Category and Date http://mtalt.hort.net/article-index.html ------------------------------------------------ All Suite101.com garden topics : http://www.suite101.com/topics.cfm/635 ---------- > From: plantsman > Marge, I know you said that they can't climb, but I can assure that they can > climb quite well. I caught mine one day up in one of my apple trees > munching on the young leaves after it had bloomed. It ran down that tree > like a cat after it spotted me. It would also regularly climb three feet up > the brick walls into my flower planters to get to the tomatoes and then up > onto the concrete column caps to sun itself.

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