IN my smaller garden area...12x12 and double fenced etc. I planted a couple peppers and a couple really nice 10" tall tomatoes. I covered them and there was about 1" open at the bottom of the bucket over the tomatoes.
checked them today...and
chewed off at the bottom of the stock.
Happened last year also...I even put fine netting over them...
But again tomatoes gone...??
Maybe I need rat traps, or ??? no signs of diggin....
I don't trust those digger squirrels,,,no signs of moles, gopher either..hmmm.
Anyway...I also have about 8 pans of seedlings in the barn ready to go outside as soon as I think no frost...and the big garden has onion sets, radish, carrots, and green onions in..Also 4 watermelon plants...that area really covered....
I also put down
Blood meal in the soil and also bone meal....
think I need something stronger for the pests...although I try and be organic as possible.
HW standing guard on the garden...