Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
old-timer knowledge: how to get rid of groundhogs for less than $1
Generally groundhogs are considered beneficial for ground maintenance but at times they can become pests and cost you hundreds to thousands of dollars in damages. Both their diet and their habit of burrowing make groundhogs a serious source of nuisance around farms and gardens. They will eat many commonly grown vegetables, berries, fruit trees, and roots of all of these. Extensive burrowing can undermine foundations. What do they like to damage? Home foundations, orchards, gardens, garage foundations, home concrete slab floors, garage concrete floors, and just about any structure that uses the ground to stabilize it as they dig and burrow under them. As in this video, they will also destroy gardens and orchards and the plants that are in them.
The way this works is that groundhogs cant digest bubble gum. Instead, it blocks their digestive system. They die within a few days. Some people will say that's not very ethical but groundhogs are pretty hard to trap, even harder to shoot since they are very solitary, poison is going to take several days to work too. About the only way you know they are even on your property is when you start finding burrow entrances. So its your choice if you want to use this method or not, if you think its unethical then don't but also don't bitch and complain when they do damage that's going to cost you potentially a fortune in repair costs, lost food, or risk your life's investment (your home, barn, garage could collapse from weakened foundation).
old-timer knowledge: how to get rid of groundhogs for less than $1
Generally groundhogs are considered beneficial for ground maintenance but at times they can become pests and cost you hundreds to thousands of dollars in damages. Both their diet and their habit of burrowing make groundhogs a serious source of nuisance around farms and gardens. They will eat many commonly grown vegetables, berries, fruit trees, and roots of all of these. Extensive burrowing can undermine foundations. What do they like to damage? Home foundations, orchards, gardens, garage foundations, home concrete slab floors, garage concrete floors, and just about any structure that uses the ground to stabilize it as they dig and burrow under them. As in this video, they will also destroy gardens and orchards and the plants that are in them.
The way this works is that groundhogs cant digest bubble gum. Instead, it blocks their digestive system. They die within a few days. Some people will say that's not very ethical but groundhogs are pretty hard to trap, even harder to shoot since they are very solitary, poison is going to take several days to work too. About the only way you know they are even on your property is when you start finding burrow entrances. So its your choice if you want to use this method or not, if you think its unethical then don't but also don't bitch and complain when they do damage that's going to cost you potentially a fortune in repair costs, lost food, or risk your life's investment (your home, barn, garage could collapse from weakened foundation).
