“Now...I just checked my sweet potatoes and found that chipmunks or mice have been digging up and devouring some of the tubers.”
I feel your pain!
Back in the day at my other farm the boys and I had planted Yukon Gold potatoes...back before you could buy them EVERYWHERE. We were SO excited to harvest them! They were planted in a spot that used to be a wood pile, so that soil was really rich and lovely and we just KNEW there would be the Best. Potatoes. Ever. EVER! underneath.
Yeah, well, every CRITTER that USED TO LIVE in that woodpile that we moved to plant taters proved us right! EVERY tater that we dug up was already half eaten!
Nature always wins. :(
Raining to beat the band this morning. I had to get the truck out of the barn around 5:30 & the rain was a ‘roar’ on the tin roof. We have a 2.5 hour trip this morning, including going over the mountains (S curves) & lots of country roads ... at least we will be driving into the dawn when visibility will improve. We’ll be driving into the dark coming home tonight, but the rain should have stopped by then. It’s fast approaching “Leaf Peeper” season around here so I expect more company, combining a trip to see the leaf color in the mountains with visiting us. I may need to look into a reservation system LOL.
We need this rain badly! Mowing results in dust clouds & the grass is ‘crunchy’. Hopefully, it will be enough rain to soften the ground somewhat for the next 11 holes I need to dig for planting bushes, etc. We do have company coming Monday & it would be nice to have all the planting done ... busy couple of days coming up after today.