Apples are by far the best. I grew up box trapping them and doing eerything possible to keep them out of the garden.
A sure fire way to drive them off by far the fastest and most productive is to take a garden hose and let it run. Depending on the depth and soil will dictate how long they will flush out. Be ready if you do not want them taking up residence nearby. Some screen the hole over to drown them others like myself in my childhood shot them between the eyes with a .22 pellet at point blank range. They always stop at the edge of the hole giving enough time for a shot just have the gun up otherwise they will see you move and you will have a running shot across the yard. 22 shorts would work great if I was to do this today. If they have two or more exits block them with large rocks and lots of dirt.
Last time I did this was when made it down its hole with a junk expandable broadhead the was fused half open so I figured it would do in the woodchuck in an area I can not shot a gun. So I hit it good in the shoulder but it made it down the hole and never did it penetrate thru the shoulder. So the garden hose came out to resue my carbon express arow and sure enough it came out the escape hole and I got it back as exited.
PS this works great on rats. I still do it in my bird pens. The rats are harder as they come flying out and do not stop so rat shot in the 22 is a must or just block and drown.
An alternative to drowning is smoke bombs sold in most agricultural stores. They market them for this use. Draw back is the smoke rarely fills the entire chamber. SO most farmers my way rig up an extension to the exhaust and run it down the hole and block up all exits. This is free except for the gas.
