Jake's Outdoors

Another Gardening Post…

I wrote a few days ago that we had the garden in and complete.  However, over the last few days, I have noticed that many of my new, tender plants have been eaten off by some “wascally wabbit”, and my beans have been broken off by the neighbor’s dogs.  I certainly never thought that these would be issues.  So, today I started to work at putting up a chicken wire fence that will hopefully keep both of the aforementioned trouble makers out of my garden.

I was hoping to get the whole thing done in a couple of hours, but it appears that it will be a much bigger job than that.  It took me a while to figure out the best way of drawing the wire taunt, but I think I have the hang of it now.  Just as I was making good progress, a big storm blew up.  Looks nasty outside right now. I’m hoping we don’t lose power!

Most of the garden has come up pretty well.  I am a bit disappointed that my tomatoes and peppers have not taken as well as I thought they would.  I hope they will take off in the next week or so.  I have to replace a couple of plants that are not doing well…in fact, one is shriveled up to nothing.  I’ve already had to replace 2 tomatoes from where mr. bunny has been chewing on them.  I guess that is part of the fun of gardening.

I’m sure there will be more to come!