Casualties Of The GARDEN ~ GROWING FOOD Can Be WAR! 📷 [Video inside]
It Happens Every Year In The Garden
Every year the story is the same with just different characters. You never know which ones will fall in battle. The garden is a battlefield with your enemies being moles, packrats, groundhogs, armadillos, mice, birds, Japanese beetles, aphids, and hornworms just to name a few! Yes, the enemy is well equipped and will choose to invade and take it's toll on your hard work of growing food for your family!
Of course, you have counter measures to discourage your foe but even still, there are casualties. This is the cost of growing a garden. It will happen. A TRUE gardener, battle hardened and tested prepares himself/herself mentally for this sad inevitability.
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Thank You for sharing what all is going on with the garden Zac, love that you grow and know your foods! Resteemit!
That's a real bummer about the potatoes and squash. Thanks for the tip on the Egyptian spinach I will try it next year for sure. I'm always battling squirrels for my tomatoes and sweet peppers. Next year I am planting twice as many tomatoes hopefully there won't be twice as many squirrels.
So true about something going bad each year. I try so hard to make everything come out perfect but there is always at least one thing that has a bad year. Oh well such is the life of a gardener.
Cabbage worms are my greatest enemy every year.
I have a question on compost can i use fishing worms or is there special worms i need to buy to help with composting
wiener dog that'll find that mole .
Our tomatoes have been taking a hit from Wilt this year. Otherwise, nothing too out of the ordinary. Thanks to your sharing Neem Oil & Sal Suds a year back!
nature..red of tooth and claw.
Great Post! We have a large amount of Japanese Beatles that we are contending with, so we will see how things turn out.
Is that turnip called Hakurei?
We grow it and eat it raw, sliced into a salad. Last year I let one grow to seed and the turnip got huge and stringy. I cooked it but it is best to eat it raw when it is young.