Squirrelly must die (and other updates.)
Sheez, not that Squirrelly! This one:
These guys are no help. No help at all.
Why must Squirrelly die? Because he’s farming, then eating my lettuce! As soon as it’s four inches high - wham, squirrelly eats everything - then waits until it grows again.
The devastation:
See what I mean. He ate just enough.
He is now letting it grow to torture me into thinking
I’m going to have a salad,
then WHAM he eats the lettuce.
Of course, shooting, maiming, poisoning, torturing or hurting a squirrel is illegal by law in the City and County of Denver. I wonder why they had to pass that law….
Anyway, on to updates. We last looked at the urban farm on May 23.
May 23 : Bed 1
June 24 : Bed 1
May 23 : Bed 2
June 24 : Bed 2
May 23 : Bed 3
June 23 : Bed 3
(The blue things are called “walls of water”. They are like portable terrariums.
I use them around tomatoes early in the season.
I’m using them here for watermelon - it’s just not quite warm at night yet.)
Here’s a few extra cool things. We decided to grow asparagus from seed:
Babies…. ahhhh…..
And even a baby blackberry!
(You can check out how we built these beds in this post. Remember, there’s two feet of loose, nutritious soil under each bed.)
Because someone, who will remain named Claudia, saw a buy 3 raspberry plants get 3 free deal meant that you type “3″ in the quantity box, we wound up with 18 raspberry plants. That’s right 18.
So the NEW raspberry bed:
You’ll notice that the soaker goes under the fence.
The neighbors “had to” take some raspberry plants off our hands.
Oh and some basil and some Red Zinnias.
On to our bees. We have four stable hives. They seem very healthy and happy. In fact, they are better than I’ve seen them in a long time. Two hives already have honey supers on them (what we collect honey from). I expect to add supers to the others next week. Keep your fingers crossed!
Thank you for all your prayers and concerns. This is quite an undertaking and so very fun!
Happy Friday!
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It’s them or your salad OG…glad to see your victory garden is growing well.
Oh good, I’m glad your not after the “Squirrely”……
Well that just sucks….but hey, that’s nature……does putting up any kind of barrier or netting help?
Your garden looks great!!! Isn’t it a good feeling to watch it grow?
Peace
lookin good, my strawberries are doing well as are the walla walla onions you sent me. the stuff in the egg carton is moving along slowly
Well somebody has a green tumb! Your garden looks great. And for the squirrel - just borrow a dog for a few days ;o)
Have a great weekend!
dead @ someone, who will remain named Claudia! hilarious! your garden’s looking good!!
First, I’m so jealous of all your wonderful growing things. I’ve got a tiny yard and have done some container gardening, but nothing so beautiful as what you’ve got going on.
Second, last year I tried container tomatoes. As they ripened, I noticed holes in them. I couldn’t figure out what was creating the holes, but I wasn’t going to eat them…Then one day I spied a bird on my fence. I was watching it perched their so harmlessly, and then, it swiftly flew to the tomato plant and pecked two swift wholes into the only not-quite-ripened tomato left on the plant. I didn’t try planting any this year because I couldn’t figure out how to keep the darned birds from attacking them.
That squirrel is hilarious! I’m sure the midnight snacking it does is not! Love the garden!
TWMark - Now we just have to have some victory!
Odat - I have to look into it - so far the solution seems to be cayenne pepper - but I’ll see what I can figure out. They plow through our apples. I’d be sad if they did that with the tomatoes.
Furiousball - Hey! Cool that everything is growing well at your house! YES!
Ivanhoe - We have a dog. These squirrelly’s are foxy. You’d be surprised at what they can do. All over Denver people share squirrel elimination plans - which is moronic since they are a “fill the gap” species - (i.e., if there’s a gap they fill it.)
Jameil - Yes, I remain named Claudia.
Smtwngrl - You can still use the tomatoes in paste or tomato sauce. They sell bird nets that you put around things. I like gardeners supply - I bet they have a solution.
Los Angelista - I love the GI Joes - they look so serious about their prey!
The garden is progressing beautifully. I hope the pepper works on the squirrel so you can get a bit of salad! And such great news about the hives!
Have a fantastic weekend.
I can hear the Hallelujah Chorus in the background thinking about the bees. I’m feeling good!
THat looks like a wonderful garden. My grandmother had a great raspberry patch in back of the house. Out of it came some great pies. Good luck.
I know I shouldn’t laugh at that Squirrelly Must Die picture. But I did.
Your beds look really lush. Can’t wait to hear how it all tastes.
And - tag! You’re it!
Squirrels must always die! I’ll have to write about my run in with a squirrel.
What a great garden! I’m so excited to have a space for a garden in my new place. I won’t have tons of time to grow tooo much, but it will indeed be nice.
It is one of life’s great ironies that we who “go back to nature” with a garden, find ourselves immediately in battle with almost everything feathered or furry, not to mention insects.
The groundhog likes my peas. The squirrels eat the tomatoes, the bunny eats the thyme. And the birds get all the raspberries. (The sweet ones, not the Brooklyn kind).
OMG, it looks so amazing….especially the dead squirell, I call them fuzzy rats!
I can’t wait to plant a little garden…but I doubt we get much in late July.
So glad I don’t have to die. By the way, that lettuce looks delicious.