Heh, I’ll have to protect the plants from being dug up. We STILL have some critter or critters about the place @ night, some nights.
And as it turns out, by coincidence, as I had 4 such nice catfish heads: I tried a couple of the smaller heads near the bottom of approx. 1-1/2 gallon pots (that stay outside!), the bigger two in closer to 3 gallon pots. I’ve never tried them (fish heads) with potted plants before.
Wifey cooks the bass and bluegill, scaled and gutted, but with the heads on, Asian style, so, those heads I don’t get for the garden. In the past I’ve saved a few bluegill that were too small to clean and cook (unless one was really desperate), from overpopulated ponds, for such Squanto-like efforts. But, again, the marauding coons and opossums can be a problem, then.
I’m trying this with “spare” tomato plants — the Opo are a bit much to risk.
I can see that critters would LOVE to dig up the fish heads from under your plants. My Grandpa used to ‘plant fish heads’ while trying to grow tomatoes in the ridiculously sandy soil of Washara County. Can’t beat it for drainage, though, LOL!
Not sure WHY he never imported some better soil, or composted, but it wasn’t that much of a THING back then unless you were one of those, ‘g-d@mn HIPPIES,’ LOL!
I think my Grandpa needs to come back to me now so I can show him how to grow tomatoes, LOL! (I’m sure he’s smiling down at me from above, anyway...and MAD that I’m not taking better care of his gardening tools than I do...)
Coons have dug up my Broccoli plants 3x, now. Not all twelve, but a few each evening; enough to be annoying. They seem to be over it now, and all of the plants have survived. We go through this EVERY year. JERKS!