Racoons>> With regards to racoons getting into vegetable gardens,and grape vines etc. I have found a very easy soloution that has worked a few years for me, and another, a bit more involving. (1). I left an old radio playing in the garden, and one in the area of my grape vines, 24 hours a day, and no racoons touched either. They are shy, and nervous (unless in a city area maybe, where people feed them, and they become very used to you?) Before that, corn and grapes could be wiped out in one night. The volume of the radio would have to be considered, at night, if you have close neighbors, and maybe directing the sound of it, towards the area most vulnerable, away from neighbors, and of course, protected from rain etc. If it works well for you, I would suggest just an outdoor speaker(s), with wires to it/them from inside the house or garden shed. I hope you have a good???(Ha!) station like CKBC, Bathurst, N.B. that can keep them away. Another idea that has worked, and for groundhogs ( woodchucks) as well, is an electric fence, anywhere from a model for small corrals for horses, down to the small pet deterrent models (Fidoshock is the one I used).//Friends have told me that mothballs have sucessfully kept cats out of their gardens, but IMPERITAVE NOT to use if any chance of children EATING them. They can be placed under the soil or on top, or in the flowers etc./ I would be interested to hear if these, especially the radio, has worked for other readers.Good luck......justmejim
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