Back to Gardening Chapter 6, Dealing With Pests - Part A: Mammals (cont...)

In this section I discuss how to identify and deal with a porcupine problem.

Porcupine

Porcupines are large rodents that are covered in quills. For the sake of this section, I am talking about the North American Porcupine, which can weigh up to 40 lbs (18 kg), but average closer to about half of that. In the wild, they eat a wide range of types of vegetation - and in a vegetable garden they will eat just about everything - and du…