Um Big-foots are disgusting !! I can't stand to be in the same woods with them. That is the real reason I stopped hunting. I just tell people, as I got older, I lost the will to kill game. First off--Um Big-foots never practice any personal hygiene. You will never see one groom itself, like other animals. Nor will you ever see one take a bird bath. Its no wonder they stay hidden from other forest guests. Who would want to make a public appearance looking like that ? Most likely, their own body odor makes um sick. I've seen their droppings--they never wipe. These people staying out in the woods trying to see a Big-foot, don't know them creatures like I do. If they did, they wouldn't be so anxious to have a encounter. I'm sorry if my hate towards the Big-foots offends you. But its time someone spoke the truth. People search for them for them, are only driving them into our rural areas. All that tree bashing, and yelling into the night air, will only herd um in my direction. This isn't like Snipe hunting. A Big-foot won't fit into a sack. I know !! I tried !!

They are not all bigfoot. Some are are named Darryl and their feelings are easily hurt.

I have a different problem. The resident squirrels are digging my garden. I caught them in the act, so I'm sure it's them. Also they eats my strawberries.

@Maxjohnson-- I got no advice on that one. I got a cheap cage trap off of ebay a few years ago. Anticipating that problem with squirrels, and rabbits. For some reason they leave me alone. I did end two different groundhog's life of crime. Each year I have a tomato pecking bird problem. I set water out for them, and tried several suggested cures. Finally I said, its them or me. I clear picked every ripe tomato, and left one on the ground surrounded by mouse glue traps. Ended up, it was just one bird doing it all.
The short of it is--- if I catch my tomato pecking bird early, before others learn from it. I only have one to deal with each year. This year I'm growing ground cherries. I may find myself with your same problem. Squirrels love to look inside a shell.

@ TomHillbilly
I tried ground cherries in 2018. Good experience, but kinda like eating sunflower seeds, lotta work for little eaten. I did enjoy them but in 2019 I didn't grow any on purpose. Worst weed in my 2019 garden was.....ground cherries.

@Rockandrollin. I saw them as a kid. But for some reason the generation before me stopped growing them. That generation is mostly gone. So I couldn't inquire as to why they stopped. From what you say, I might have an ideal as to why now. I'm at the stage in life I've got to downsize in gardening. I got a 30' by 30' foot space over next to a tree, in which I figure I've been damaging its roots with a tiller. I'm letting that space go. In hopes that it will replenish itself each year. after I plant this once. Its 120' from my large garden spot. I don't need weed invasions in it. The ground cherry ideal isn't worth ruining my main garden.
QUESTION--- I'm I messing up ?? Advice is free, and I rarely adhere to it anyways. So tell me what you think?? Its not to late for me to change plans, trash the entire ideal. I've never grown a ground cherry as a adult. So I'm ignorant on the subject.

Grow them, it was a fun experiment for me! I tried Aunt Mollies and Goldie varieties. Just make sure they harvest themselves by dropping or dropping with a little shake, and are good and yellow. The green ones are to some degree poisonous. I just ate them fresh, but I understand they make a good pie.

Far as being a weed the next year: really thick and easy to pull OR transplant if you so desire. I did transplant some of mine, thinking how lucky I was to not have had to start them the same time as my tomato seeds. After the volunteers kept coming up, I decided to pull the transplants.

Good conversation starter: I'm growing ground cherries this year. In my experience, most people said something to the effect of, what are those?