Very nice! And spacious. Your chickens will love that!
What did you do in the garden today?
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Well, we got the garden in and mostly mulched, including 6-8' stakes for the san marzano tomatoes. But The Groundhog came back and chewed up some of the plants, especially the cauliflower and the peppers. We're not up and active early enough to stop her it seems and the scarecrow we put up isn't a big help so far. (It's not a very good scarecrow to be fair).
We already have a fence around the yard but the hog just digs under. The dog isn't keeping her away either. I'm considering a pepper spray for the plants. A good soak in cayenne might stop the marauding.
Anyone got any good groundhog proofing suggestions?
We already have a fence around the yard but the hog just digs under. The dog isn't keeping her away either. I'm considering a pepper spray for the plants. A good soak in cayenne might stop the marauding.
Anyone got any good groundhog proofing suggestions?
How frustrating! Maybe a hardware cloth skirt would keep it from digging in, at ground level but extending a couple feet out from the gardens edge.
Unfortunately the fence is around the property boundary, it's a wood privacy fence, so I would have to skirt with hundreds of feet of hardware cloth, and I couldn't spread it out because it would cross into neighbor's property, so I would have to dig it into the ground instead... Across hundreds of feet of fencing. :X
yesterday planted about half the garden now either today or tomorrow will do the rest 
Got 5 more tomatoes in (ones I'd grown from seed so they are very tiny as I did it too late - hope they'll be OK!), an eggplant, a pepper and moved some volunteer calundulas around. Kept getting rained on so wasn't much fun! I got all my zuchinnis and brassicas in the other day so just need to get all the squash / pumpkins / melons I got from the plant sale in then I can start on stuff that needs direct sowing. Having a bad time with lots of rain and mad crazy weeds everywhere! I did do a bit of weeding but need to do some serious work. I think I'll make the boys come and help me (the bigs are 12 and 17 so quite able too - they are just lazy!) I'm growing them food at the end of the day!
lazy is normal at that age 
Your garden looks amazing! Love all your trellises - I need to get building!
Did a neem oil spray on both raised beds last night. Boy, is it potent! The smell alone might repel bugs. It's oniony, garlicky, balsamy, and sulphury, all at the same time. Today, I checked the garden, then proceeded to give my chickens a mite dip, and spray their quarters.
The cantaloupes are getting flowers. I think I see buds on the cucumbers, too. Golden wax beans have been flowering. We have tons of baby tomatoes on our vines. Maybe we'll be harvesting something besides snap peas, and lettuce soon.
The cantaloupes are getting flowers. I think I see buds on the cucumbers, too. Golden wax beans have been flowering. We have tons of baby tomatoes on our vines. Maybe we'll be harvesting something besides snap peas, and lettuce soon.
Thanks @PouleChick ! I feel like they look silly know with not to much growth yet but got creative and cleaned up lots of stuff around the yard and shed. I need to stick 1 more in for the cantaloupe. Found a small chain link fence piece so installing this week before those melons get to big
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