Hubby lost his whole garden last year as well. I didn’t even plant 4 of the raised beds last year, because I knew that I wouldn’t be able to water them.
It wasn’t until fall that I actually got a crop of tomatoes. Before that the squirrels were stripping off even the tiniest and really green tomatoes just for the moisture.
My question is this: Some of you speak of planting flowers in your garden with the veggies. WHY? Do you have to do that to get bees to drop by? My two bush rose bushes in the garden are about to burst open with beautiful pink roses and that's all the flowers out there.
All of you tell me about having to have flowers out there. What should I plant to go along with those two rose bushes? If I need more, is there a pink blossomed flower I could use? All my roses were different colors of pink and that rose garden was my pride and joy and now they're all gone except these two bushes. I don't think the two weak climbing ones will bloom because they are so scraggly. They might bloom next year.
So, do I need more flowers and what kind of pink ones could I get if I need them? I know Johnny planted some kind of flowers and I should have already asked him about why he planted those.
“squirrels were stripping off even the tiniest and really green tomatoes”
We have LOTS of squirrels around here. Since we did not have tomatoes last year, they didn’t steal them. But this year I’m hoping to have some.
Another concern is we think we have a pet armadillo or some such critter. We went outside yesterday and someone has rooted around our elm tree, various places in the yard, and around our bulb bed. Divots are about 2” to 3” big, and about that deep.
Darlin looked up a bunch of armadillo repellant strategies which we printed out, but to us they are untried. Does anyone here have experience with squirrel, armadillo, and etc thwarting? To our knowledge, we have no deer in our yard.