So after returning from four days of vacation I return to horrible devastation. Here is how I found my entire row of matured lettuce!
And my beautiful red cabbage. (sobbing)
And the kale... but worst of all mmy... my ... my CARROTS!! While only being gone for a few days a gardeners nightmare occurred. Last year I didn't get any carrots and this year my carrots were doing so so well, I was so proud of them and in one swift stroke it was all undone.
As I am in the garden everyday, my extended absence emboldened an animal... a burrower, to tunnel under my garden fortifications. This is the first time I have ever had an animal do this. I discovered at least three holes, and other half finished ones, under my fencing where an animal had been climbing in and out dinning on my garden vegetables the entire time I was away on vacation. The vegetables that I have been working so hard to nurture into adulthood... to protect them from the onslaugths of slugs and cutworms. And now this!
Who was it? At first I suspected my enemy the rabbit. The main things eaten were things that I felt a rabbit might eat... cabbage family plants, lettuce... um carrots? But after thinking about it... I realized it must be my arch enemy- the groundchunk! These nasty nasty critters. Frequently while I am working in the garden in the afternoon, I will hear a rustle in the brush... upon looking at the source its usually proves to be a groundchunk scurrying about along its way along the fence of the garden. As long as they are on the outside and not in. However there have already been two unfriendly encounters with them IN the garden this year who supposedly entered via a back gate which I have since closed off. Both I allowed to escape, but perhaps my mercy was a mistake... their knowledge was my gardens undoing.
Now I begin my revenge.
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