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It’s bad enough I have to battle baby woodchucks stripping my flower gardens bare.

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They’re adorable, but it’s very hard to make them stop nibbling.

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I heard shredding Irish Spring around the plants helps, so I’m all in.

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My other problem this year?

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A mouse.

Who beheaded all my lovely marigolds and dragged the blooms under our shed.

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I didn’t even have a chance to photograph the pretty alternating yellow and orange combination before all I was left with was this…

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Because as soon as the mouse ripped off all the blooms?

The chucks ate 3/4’s of the leaves.

But I fixed them.

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I planted a row of taller crown daisies and no one likes those.

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