We're all for creating a home for wildlife when gardening, but while you might want to encourage seemingly cute critters like chipmunks into your backyard, they can actually be surprisingly ...

Like a lot of other gardeners, Sally Pickard is looking forward to the day when deer will stop eating her tulip buds. She’s tried products using animal urine or putrid eggs to keep them away. These ...

The tomatoes and zucchini are ripening in abundance — and the ground squirrels and other varmints know it. An assault by a colony of ground squirrels on the Our Garden experimental plot at the Contra ...

I hear from many gardeners each season who face animal issues in their garden. While deer seem to be the most common leaf-munching culprit, two other mammals cause gardeners a great number of ...

Q: A squirrel or several squirrels ate a hole in my lead flashing, and now it leaks badly when it rains. Water from the roof runs down into the hole. The top of the flashing is cemented into the ...

When I find a new hole or mound on my property (usually from a gopher), I dump cat feces into it. I started this practice last year, and it seems to work. I can’t imagine I’d stay in a new ...

The district administration has introduced a ‘wild animal repellent’ to save standing crops from stray wild animals. The repellent, Neelbo, being synthesized using naturally available substances, is ...