Miscellanous updates for the past week:
- Fertilized the tomatoes.
- Replanted (third time) yellow beans; eleven of the original twelve plants had been chewed off by a furry foe.
- Lost one pepper plant to some critter that left the plant mostly intact, but nibbled on the stem just enough to make it flop over in despair.
- Planted pumpkins today. I wanted to use up half a dozen old seeds, so I threw them in where my brassicas had bit the dust (also chewed off). Only three cabbage plants survived the ambush, but they are doing well.
- The kids’ bed is starting to come alive. Loads of radishes. The Rattlesnake Beans are up. Some carrots too.
- Planted more cucumbers. Still no trellis for the first planting – several of those chewed off as well.
- Lost a parsley plant; also chewed to the ground.
- Never before seen: Pea flowers chewed off and left on the ground.
- Most of my beets will not produce anything edible: the greens (my favourite!) have been almost completely stripped.
As a result of all this unwanted nibbling, I constructed a temporary fence around the border of the four beds with the most damage in them; I used a kind of PVC netting and stapled it to stakes every 8 feet around the perimeter. Used row cover fabric and shade cloth as barrier systems for two other beds. All this for the one lone rabbit who barely gives me a nod now, every time I catch him in the garden. I still use my ultrasonic device for the raccoons.
Almost sprayed the tomatoes with neem oil again ( it’s supposed to rain tonight), but decided I was too darn tired.
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