Garden raders

[doc623]

What do you employ/use to control/eradicate/get rid of your garden raders.
I know ground hogs and coon are involved.
I also think that deer are involved.
Currently the sweet corn - that is no where ripe - the stalks are being broken over; the ears are being pulled off and left; and etc.
I am not thinking two legged but the 4 leggged variety.
Too big the frnce.
Help/ideas?
Thankls.

[uncle Will in In.]

Your damage sounds like coons. They can tear up a big patch of sweetcorn in 2 nights. I put an electric hot wire around ours. I mow the grass and weeds as short as possible where the fence goes, then run the wire about 7 inches above the ground. This has worked for several years now. Keeping a livetrap set thins them out before hand.

[doc623]

That helps toexplain and I forgot to mention that I set a live trap last night and forgot to ancher it.
This morning the trap was turned over; the bait was gone and the trap had not been tripped as the mechanism could not work with the trap upside down.

[Pony]

Too late for this year, but we plant squash and pumpkin around the perimeter of our corn. The coons don't care for the feel of the spiny vines.

[Tabitha]

Our Great Phyrrs seem to be keeping all that away. A while back one of the pups was playing with a coon tail. We keep them to protect our critters from coyoteIf you do not have dogs then I would go with hot wire.