Attack of the Critters

I walked outside tonight after dinner to check on my new garden. Other than a few hoof prints in the soil and some strawberries that disappeared one night, I had been very lucky up to this point not losing too much to the wildlife. Unfortunately I found out this evening I am not immune to these problems.








- The beans and broccoli were nibbled down to their stems. It was either rabbits or deer. If I had to guess I'd say rabbits; the plants were sheared at an angle close to the ground. Deer tend to pull the plant out cleanly.




- This Japanese beetle is relaxing after a long night of eating raspberries.

What does this mean? That this area is not a necessarily good place to plant vegetables. That is all right. A perennial garden may work better here anyway.

I have a location on the other side of the house that might serve a vegetable garden better. Wild raspberries grow on that end without pest problems as I have seen so far. A fence of some sort might be in my future. The raspberry bushes could be transplanted to fence in a raised vegetable garden over there.




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