Pumpkin Harvest - Culling

Pumpkin harvest and culling rotten ones

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• farming
• pumpkins
• gardening
• crops
• harvest
• rotten
• how
• to
• raccoons
• damage

[webcajun]

Years ago people would hunt coons for their meat and hides. Now, very few hunt them so the population has exploded in my area.  Out of a possible 10,000 ears of corn I ended up with 3 bags for the freezer. I was told if you put up an electric fence to string several wires as they will soon learn to avoid just one. Good video with good information...... Donald

[sal39759]

I've seen "electrified poultry netting", and I'm thinking about using it next year. I won't even think about corn because I've put out piles of ear corn for deer a put trail cameras on them. There's just too many deer and coons around here! I've still got plenty of time to decide what I'll do next year...but it all costs alot of money!!! Thanks.....Greg

[coreyfmiller]

Sounds to me like... You need to start selling Deer hide and Racoon fur :D

[sal39759]

Hey Corey, I tried spot lighting the coons one night but they could hide in the pumpkin vines too easy but I didn't want to use steel traps......just don't like 'em........Greg

[destroyahdes]

Oh man I can't stand racoons. Nice pumpkins though. In Florida it's nearly impossible to grow pumpkins because of the heat and humidity. Powdery Mildew is the worst. I'd love to grow pumpkins but the plants always die. But I refuse to give up.

[sal39759]

Yea, the coons really messed'em up...about 3/4's of the crop on 2 acres. I don't know if I will try them again....at least not without a fence around the patch.

[marmit70]

my uncle slept on a cot under a tarp with his dogs all summer in SW Kansas to defend his melons and pumpkins from the coon invaders. In the winter when the pelts were prime the barn was often covered with thier thieving hides