Remove all cover, such as tall grass, piles of junk, tall weeds, etc. Groundhogs like cover, so when you remove it, you provide a deterrent against them using your garden space.
They also like areas with lots of rotting leaves, tall grasses, piles of wood, and rock walls because these areas provide safe, covered environments for the ticks to live.
They like tall grass, brush piles, wood piles, and other sources of shelter.
This includes such things as wood piles, rock piles, garbage piles, long grass, brush, undergrowth, piles of building materials, animal burrows, etc. Think about the places that would be cozy for a snake to move into and remove them.
Remove piles of dead leaves, grass clippings, piles of wood, boxes, tires, plywood, and empty containers from the yard.
Flies love tall grass and piles of brush, so keep your shrubs trimmed and don't leave piles of cut grass, leaves or brush in your yard.
Clumps of marsh grass lay piled up in large mounds, while the plants that were still rooted in the soil had turned brown and brittle — symptoms of salt burn.
Given its 25 per cent unemployment rate, its ring roads of empty factories – marble steps overgrown with grass, courtyards piled with garbage – this ancient Ottoman city should be more angry than Athens, certainly tinged with a fear of the violence which journalists in the capital talk about.
Grass and a pile of fibreglass rods, an inflatable mattress and billowing sheets of nylon that will, I'm told, if assembled in the right way, procure me shelter for the night.
Every time we encounter a new Halloween display or tall grass or a pile of leaves (remember that scene in Big) or some guys building steps or a wall, it's a totally novel experience for some of us.
