Oh, no! Sorry for your veggie losses! At least you still have enough growing season left to recoup your losses.
I’m getting the beds ready to receive and placing tomato cages, etc. but I’m not putting anything tender out until at least the 21st of May, which is a week earlier than I usually do. I have salad greens, spinach, kale, broccoli and cauliflower planted. Everything needs a drink, today. It’s been very dry.
My ‘Critter Trouble’ seems to be an opossum and not a racoon. He showed up last night after I had taken in the feeders. My Beagle went out and barked at him for a while, but the opossum held his/her ground! All of the feeders were in, so if he/she wanted to clean up any spilled seed on the ground, that was fine with me! :)
It was pretty big, so it could be a pregnant Mama or a male. We couldn’t tell, and if the dog knew, he wasn’t saying, LOL!
My bird feeders have been undisturbed the last couple of night ..... :-)
It helps that I can buy 4-packs of veggies for $1.79 not 5 minutes from the house. I really hate to lose anything I’ve planted, though. Usually, I start my tomatoes from 4-packs, but my SIL found the Celebrities at Food Lion for $2.50 each (they would have been a couple dollars more at Lowe’s or Home Depot). They’d also been sitting outside a good while, so I didn’t have to worry about sunburn like I do with the really small greenhouse plants.
Anyway, I think we’ll be fine - peppers look like they’ve already grown a bit in the peat pots!