What did you do in the garden today?

[Pensmaster]

Ok, i am mad an some varmint is going to die! Husband said he accidentally weed whacked my watermelon plant. So i went to pick beans and cherry tomatoes. Every one of my sunflower plants was chewed off about a foot high and leaves eaten. Leaves and stems eaten off my second batch of peas. Stems chewed off so my pea plants will die. Sweet potato plants lost their leaves. String beans lost their leaves. Some critter chewed the heck out of my garden. It did not eat my tomato plants, but ate some of my lettuce which is too small to harvest. My garden is fenced to 4 feet but a deer could jump in. Husband says not deer because of no tracks. But our soil is pretty hard except where i dug it up. I am ordering a hot box tonight. There may be nothing to protect by the time it gets here. So mad, especially about my peas and sunflowers. I may stay up tonight and see what shows up. I would put the shepherd out there but she is in heat.

The deer here love the tomato plants but won't touch the sunflowers....yet

Maybe a rabbit or raccoon?

As for what gardeners do over the winter months...why we thumb through seed catalogues and plan for next spring..what else?

I was going to say get a seed catalog and start dreaming. A warning should come on each packet. Buying this $3.00 packet of seed will cost you hours of hard labor and many more hours for building fences, electrocution while you are hooking up the electric fence, cameras, gopher traps etc

 

[pennyJo1960]

I know plant in the greenhouse hope it can make things grow never did get my mustard seeds to do anything

 

[Pensmaster]

There's lots of wild mustard here. The green house gets too hot once summer kicks in

 

[pennyJo1960]

There's lots of wild mustard here. The green house gets too hot once summer kicks in

We seem not too.. not in seed catalogs or greenhouses here a friend on the garden site sent them out to me

 

[lazy gardener]

Just curious - what happens with this thread during the winter months, when no one is doing anything in their gardens? Do we still get on and chat anyway, and dream of next year's gardens, or does the thread just shut down till spring? (Hope everyone keeps chatting...I like you guys!)

We have to live vicariously through the posts and pics of the folks who are living south of the equator. Then, there's indoor gardening, green house gardening, sprouting, seed catalogs, and musing out loud about next year's plans. Then, before we know it, it's time to start seedlings for next year's garden. A gardener never really puts down her trowel!

Ok, i am mad an some varmint is going to die! Husband said he accidentally weed whacked my watermelon plant. So i went to pick beans and cherry tomatoes. Every one of my sunflower plants was chewed off about a foot high and leaves eaten. Leaves and stems eaten off my second batch of peas. Stems chewed off so my pea plants will die. Sweet potato plants lost their leaves. String beans lost their leaves. Some critter chewed the heck out of my garden. It did not eat my tomato plants, but ate some of my lettuce which is too small to harvest. My garden is fenced to 4 feet but a deer could jump in. Husband says not deer because of no tracks. But our soil is pretty hard except where i dug it up. I am ordering a hot box tonight. There may be nothing to protect by the time it gets here. So mad, especially about my peas and sunflowers. I may stay up tonight and see what shows up. I would put the shepherd out there but she is in heat.

I think you have a ground hog. A single hog can destroy a garden in less than a week. And, yes, they can climb. Ground hogs do their most damage before dusk and in early morning. I killed one last week. Have had 3 this summer. Not sure if they are all gone or not.

 

[CapricornFarm]

We have to live vicariously through the posts and pics of the folks who are living south of the equator. Then, there's indoor gardening, green house gardening, sprouting, seed catalogs, and musing out loud about next year's plans. Then, before we know it, it's time to start seedlings for next year's garden. A gardener never really puts down her trowel!



I think you have a ground hog. A single hog can destroy a garden in less than a week. And, yes, they can climb. Ground hogs do their most damage before dusk and in early morning. I killed one last week. Have had 3 this summer. Not sure if they are all gone or not.

I hear it is open season on those varmints. Now i want razor wire too.

 

[Pensmaster]

We seem not too.. not in seed catalogs or greenhouses here a friend on the garden site sent them out to me

Several wild weeds here that I try not to cut, mustard is one of them. Purslane and amaranth also.

Oh and in the spring Miners Lettuce abounds.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I read if you put up hardware cloth and bend it outwards at a 90 degree angle they can't climb up.

 

[chickmom3941]

Maybe a rabbit or raccoon?

As for what gardeners do over the winter months...why we thumb through seed catalogues and plan for next spring..what else?

Oh yes, we definitely get our share of seed catalogs, which really helps us get through the winter. We almost wear them out by spring! I was just hoping that this thread kept going even through winter, but wasn't sure if it did.

By the way, I love your avatar photo, Microchick! LOL!

 

[chickmom3941]

We have to live vicariously through the posts and pics of the folks who are living south of the equator. Then, there's indoor gardening, green house gardening, sprouting, seed catalogs, and musing out loud about next year's plans. Then, before we know it, it's time to start seedlings for next year's garden. A gardener never really puts down her trowel!



I think you have a ground hog. A single hog can destroy a garden in less than a week. And, yes, they can climb. Ground hogs do their most damage before dusk and in early morning. I killed one last week. Have had 3 this summer. Not sure if they are all gone or not.

Yes, you are right, Lazy Gardener - even if you can't be out digging in the ground, there's still things to do year round! It's almost an obsession with us gardeners, isn't it?