Terry Coombs wrote:

Are not a good mix . Went out last night to water , found the tops of many
of the field peas nibbled off . I bought an electric fence setup , but
haven't taken time to install it . Gotta get on that before they eat it all
. I thought it was rabbits , but they don't crop the tops . I was hoping
they'd hold off until I pick the blackberries , they're kinda crowding the
tomato cages . Oh well , looks like I'll be losing some of those in the
interest of saving more important stuff . Not like the whole countryside
isn't covered with blackberry bushes , but these I've kinda kept cut back so
I can get at the fruit .

I'm also having a problem with probably armadillos , not sure how to
handle that short of a night or two without sleep ... I know they're digging
for worms and grubs , but they could find a better place to do so . Found
they've dug up a couple more pepper plants , a habanero and one other that I
don't know the type , I just call them hot red cones . I'm not sure if
they'll respond to the 'lectric fence or not . Gotta get the weedwacker
fixed first and cut down the vegetation where the fence will be . Tomorrow ,
today is "get the washer and dryer moved" day .

groundhogs will also eat just the fresh tops
and leave the lower part alone.

we have a tall fence around the veggie garden
area (7-8ft).

i wish we'd put in a finer mesh down lower as
rabbits can sometimes get in, but so far this
year they are staying away. and the groundhogs
can also squeeze through when they are young. i
just plugged up their hole again.

likely culprits here for uprooting plants are
the skunks, raccoons or possums. we don't plant
any potted starts outside the fenced area because
they smell the fertilizers used and think there
are goodies down there... since we've switched
to doing that nothing outside is uprooted any
longer.

the chipmunks do some damage to the bulbed
plants at times. we have to trap them almost
continually.


songbird