Your 2024 Garden

[tripletfeb]

I have something eating my: bush bean plants and chard. Those are short plants. Something has also eaten the the dill (8-10" tall), sunflowers (12-14"), and climbing peas (18-24"). Those things have the tops chomped off. Conceivably, a deer could reach over the fence on the peas and sunflowers, but it couldn't reach the dill over the fence.

Something gnawed the kale to stems, and also a flowering plant I haven't identified. We're talking just stems left!

I have not seen any deer hoof prints, so it's not deer inside the garden. I have not seen any other prints, but they might not show in the sandy soil.

I've been cussing a blue streak, but that hasn't helped. So today, I set a live trap. I suspect a young wood chuck...? Would squirrels do this? What ever is eating all this greenery is eating a LOT of food, in one night.

 

[Sally PB]

I sprinkled that around the chard. And the dill, peas, and beans.

Maybe I'm not using enough.

I am seriously considering collecting urine (mine) to use around the garden. Has anyone done that?

 

[Smokerbill]

I sprinkled that around the chard. And the dill, peas, and beans.

Maybe I'm not using enough.

I am seriously considering collecting urine (mine) to use around the garden. Has anyone done that?

Years ago a guy on a TV gardening show recommended using aged urine for repelling moles and gophers. And not just any urine. He said baby urine is the best, aged in a warm spot for a few months. Dilute by ??? in water and spray around trouble area. Maybe it would work for deer?

 

[fuzzi]

I have something eating my: bush bean plants and chard. Those are short plants. Something has also eaten the the dill (8-10" tall), sunflowers (12-14"), and climbing peas (18-24"). Those things have the tops chomped off. Conceivably, a deer could reach over the fence on the peas and sunflowers, but it couldn't reach the dill over the fence.

Something gnawed the kale to stems, and also a flowering plant I haven't identified. We're talking just stems left!

I have not seen any deer hoof prints, so it's not deer inside the garden. I have not seen any other prints, but they might not show in the sandy soil.

I've been cussing a blue streak, but that hasn't helped. So today, I set a live trap. I suspect a young wood chuck...? Would squirrels do this? What ever is eating all this greenery is eating a LOT of food, in one night.

Rabbits?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

 

[Nomadicus]

I saw this afternoon that the raccoons have found my early sweet corn. They ate on ear and sampled another. Tomorrow we harvest all that is ready and set a trap for the intruders before the come back in the daylight for chicken to go with the corn. They have tens of thousands of wilderness to live in and it's all theirs. They have made a fatal mistake.

 

[fuzzi]

The clematis found its way to the second trellis.

 

[Nomadicus]

Water from our well is running on the sweet corn that we will start harvesting and processing tomorrow. In the morning I start irrigating the main crop of sweet corn as it is dry there now. Beans and summer peas will be getting water at the same time. I saw blossoms on the zipper cream peas late this evening when I was setting up sprinklers on the patch.

 

[Sally PB]

I read that male urine is a better deterrent to critters.

Oh, hubby, next time you need to go pee, could you make a circuit of the garden?

 

[Sally PB]

They have made a fatal mistake.

I share your feeling. I'll go check my trap in a couple hours.