It's Jen again from Half Moon Bay. This week has been a lot of fun watching the progress of the little raised box garden. We've seen the emergence of cucumbers, lots of peas, beans, carrots, garlic, nasturtiums, sunflowers, zucchini and the continued growth of hoards of wildflowers and the tomatoes (I purchased starts that were well developed and flowering, as I don't yet trust myself starting from seed).
Unfortunately, 4 days ago I uncovered the garden only to find that something was munching on the sunflower seedlings. Spoke to Carol (aka mom), who thought it may be snails. She recommended I put out a beer bath for them (beer in a shallow dish), where they could drink themselves silly and drift off to snail heaven. So I did.
The next day, the beer was pretty much gone out of one dish, the rest of the sunflower starts eaten, a zucchini start was munched, an onion unearthed, and the bean babies had been massacred. Disgusted, I consulted with mom again, and we figured that the only thing routing through the soil would be a mouse. Since I live in an agricultural area, there are a lot of field mice, so it was highly likely that a mouse thought it had just found its own personal pub, protected from the owls and elements in the greenhouse, plenty of beer to go around, and loads of munchies!
So let's just say I left it some really special munchies last night and I don't think it will be back anytime soon.
Peas are growing fast!
Zucchini-ettes
Cool bean!
Cucumber cuties
Very cute lil' nasti!
Saving a drop until later.
Unfortunately, 4 days ago I uncovered the garden only to find that something was munching on the sunflower seedlings. Spoke to Carol (aka mom), who thought it may be snails. She recommended I put out a beer bath for them (beer in a shallow dish), where they could drink themselves silly and drift off to snail heaven. So I did.
The next day, the beer was pretty much gone out of one dish, the rest of the sunflower starts eaten, a zucchini start was munched, an onion unearthed, and the bean babies had been massacred. Disgusted, I consulted with mom again, and we figured that the only thing routing through the soil would be a mouse. Since I live in an agricultural area, there are a lot of field mice, so it was highly likely that a mouse thought it had just found its own personal pub, protected from the owls and elements in the greenhouse, plenty of beer to go around, and loads of munchies!
So let's just say I left it some really special munchies last night and I don't think it will be back anytime soon.
Here's how the tomatoes are looking:
Peas are growing fast!
Zucchini-ettes
Cool bean!
Cucumber cuties
Very cute lil' nasti! Saving a drop until later.
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