Darrell Ulm said:

Hello. We have a ground hog family living near the garden. They like
to eat everything. will a few moth balls down the hole do the trick or
are they too toxic?

Trapping and careful fencing are the only non-toxic, non-fatal solutions
that I can vouch for.

As for killing groundhogs, shooting is very effective when done by
someone skilled.

If you can run them into one of their midday bolthole / bivouac
burrows, gassing works pretty well (use 2-3 Giant Destroyer smoke
bombs taped to the end of a bamboo pole and fill in the entrance).
This is less effective on a full burrow complex, because they have
several entrances, including some that are hidden (no fan of fresh
dirt).

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