"Somebody is stealing all of our vegetables."
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Posted on 06/01/2004 9:35:59 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Last week I found a curious thing in between the lettuce and the turnips: a burrow! How rude, thought I, and promptly removed it. Whatever critter it was dug a sloping trench about 5" wide and 8" long. The hole was filled with grass clippings which seemed to be wound into a big ball. None of the surrounding plants were affected.
Well I was irked, removed the grass clippings and filled the hole back in. For good measure, I dead-headed the marigolds and piled the flowers on the spot.
Well, it was just today I've been able to get back out there and admire my plants. I picked some string beans and peas, some spinach, and a head of lettuce (it all made a nice dinner this evening). And what do you suppose I found by the lettuce? Why that rascal critter built another burrow!
So I get my trowel and start to fish the grass clippings out. The clippings prove to be rather stubborn. Why? Because there's at least four newborn bunny wabbits in there!!! I have a *NEST* of bunnies in the *MIDDLE* of my garden!
I'm not sure what I'm going to do just yet.
The whole page or just the cam window, or just the picture?
Got taters precious?
No one sitting out there now, just the deck chair, and a plant in the background.
Kill the wabbit!
5 different varieties.
Oh dear.... well, I'd give the garden to the bunnies myself! (you know me) How fun!
But not even momma bunny has eaten anything. Maybe she doesn't like what I planted. (not everyone likes turnip greens...)
Maybe they're waiting for the good stuff!
When I looked a few minutes ago, it looked like someone's sitting there.
I'm not going to evict them just yet. The spinach is about to bolt, so maybe I'll let them eat that. Cam looks fine, btw.
I thought the same thing Jen. But there's something sitting on the deck that looks like the head of someone in the chair.
(somethin' wash up during high tide?)
The only question I have is do we eat'em raw or do we cook'em in a stew with some PO-tatoes?
Probably. They better not have any designs on my tomaters.
ACK!!
"Somebody is stealing all of our vegetables."
The thing that looks like a head is a plant that is sitting on the deck.
Are you watching now? ecurbh & I will walk down to the dock.... Tell us if you can see human forms down there well enough to identify people you see at the party.
I'll move the plant too.
Looks like it was a loose nut behind the keyboard...I usually right-click a link to open in a new window, and that don't work for this. When I left-click it it works fine.
Oh, man, I missed it. The headline looked high-larious.
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