Pig Attack

For 2 blissful months, we were in a dream world. Other than plenty of weeds, not much seemed to be going wrong with this garden. By month #3, the bugs had found the garden. And by December, far worse garden pests had arrived. 

Pigs!

Wayne went up one day and discovered that a pig had torn up some of the sweet potatoes. We already had a single wire of electric fencing supposedly protecting the garden, so we decided to beef up this protection. We added another strand. 

More sweet potatoes got rooted up. 

A pig hits the sweet potatoes the first night. 

We added a third strand in the direction that the pigs were coming in. Yes plural, pigs, because it was obvious that there was more than one now. 

More sweet potatoes got rooted up. 

We brought in a pig trap. Baited it with just about every item suggested. No luck. The pigs avoided the trap, avoided the hot wires, got in and ate all the sweet potato, then started eating the pumpkins. 

Every sweet potato eaten!

It was obvious to us that now that the pigs had discovered the garden, we would have to do something far better. Otherwise we wouldn’t have a garden. Because of the nature of this large farm, we could not bring in hunters. We needed pig proof fencing. Thus we started the task of fencing in the entire garden area. Expensive and time consuming, we started anyway. 

At this time I wish to thank everyone who contributed to the fencing project. Mahalo!!! This was a major effort. Without the help from the community, it couldn’t have been accomplished. It took 3 months to raise the funds. Along the way 25 fence posts were donated along with some used, but serviceable fencing. The rest of the materials were purchased new. A local man donated his time and labor to install the fence and make the needed gates. Mahalo!!!