What can you do?

Photo 1. The manager, satisfied after checking that the team has done a really thorough job in the night, leaving no blade of grass unturned.

Photo 2. The worksite the morning after.

Great job, guys. There's no easy recovery from this!

By the way, they achieved all this with a radio on the raised bed playing rock music full blast. This has deterred them fairly effectively in the past. I think they're got so they quite like it.

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@elliek

Your (former) lawn must have a bonanza of grubs or earthworms.

You might try changing the music. Maybe disco or Sinatra would be a better repellent. 🙂

In non-freezing weather, you could try a water hose with a motion activated sprinkler/sprayer.

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@donray @elliek At our previous house we had built a small koi pond in the backyard and of course the raccoons came to do a little fishing. We bought a Scarecrow, a motion activated water gun. We borrowed a night vision camera to see how it performed. The raccoon came into view and squirt, squirt, squirt… the raccoon had met its match. Unfortunately, the Scarecrow made so much noise that it woke us up everytime it activated. So we had to go with a massive wire roof over the pond.

@danmccullough @elliek

It’s a jungle out there!

@donray @danmccullough
I guess they were here first. But in that case where do we go?
@danmccullough @donray
I don't like to think of it as a constant fight. But