How do i stop and get rid of a groundhog that is eating my garden?

Traps. Unfortunately.

Put out veggie scraps away from the garden, if that keeps it happy it will stay away from the garden. I lived next to a apartment building for years, a tenant looked out their window and saw a groundhog going over my little fence. They ate a lot of fresh vegetables and put the scraps out and the ground hog never came back. They told me about this about a month after they started doing this and I never even knew that one had gotten in my garden. Nice neighbors to do this for me. Needless to say, they got all the fresh herbs and veggies they wanted out of my prolific garden!

You probably live somewhere in the USA, Linda, but if you happen, by chance, to live in the Hamilton/Golden Horseshoe area of Ontario, please, please, please don't put food scraps out due to the increasing problem we have regarding coyotes! They are scaling fences, killing household pets sitting outside in their yards and are a worry if there are also toddlers playing outside. Plus you don't want to encourage raccoons around either! Use a humane trap, baited with food then remove the groundhog to another area miles away. It is easily done - my neighbor does it all the time with our many raccoons.

We have a groundhog in our yard. I gather cucumbers from the garden, the ones that have gotten too large to eat and throw them near the shed, where he lives. As long as I keep throwing them out there he stays out of my garden. I also have about 6 large rubber snakes in my garden. Some I hang from the fencing surrounding my plants. Others are on the ground.

Re food, Linda, just go on Google and type: "what do groundhogs eat" and the answer will come up.

As I said, my neighbor puts out food in cages (veggies) for the raccoons and then drives them miles away but I haven't a clue what groundhogs eat. I'm assuming they might eat grubs and worms (yuck!) but check on Google. If it is actually worms that they eat, perhaps, there are places around you that sell live worms for fishing. I hope for your sake, they like something less gross such as kitchen vegetable scraps!! I really wish you luck!

I was told years ago by a professional animal trapper to use a cut apple to trap groundhogs and it worked very well. However, only keep the trap open during daylight hours for the groundhog. If you leave it open at night, you may get a skunk, as I did. Then I had to pay a professional to take the skunk away!!

ok Thank you very much for the advice. I will give it a try. Thanks again.

Watching Caddyshak .

Id go with off the grid methods. Try a snake.. ?

A snake. Lol. Id ask your local pest control.