I spent four weeks watering my salad table. Four weeks of sticking my pointer finger into the non-soil to see if it were wet enough. I watched some of the lettuce sprout and wither. The second planting practically disappeared. Okay, I said to myself, this was an experiment!
Then the rain began. Cool temps and misting rain. From my upstairs window, I can see the table. It began to green. Every morning, I’d smile down at my table. Then, one morning, I saw a rabbit under the table. Hah, I thought, no harm done. You can’t get my lettuce! What he did start to do was to dig a burrow under the table, out of the rain. The dog and I put an end to that plan, at the expense of my fenced in garden, which now has a happy bunny eating the tomato plants to nubs in the earth.
Meanwhile, the rain continues. It’s cool. And lettuce is happy in that. Eventually, I’ll have a small rabbit-sized salad to eat. Eventually. Nibble nibble….
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so sorry to hear about the lettuce. you won’t like to hear this but…i have harvested several meals of spinach from my garden and just harvested all of the swiss chard for last night’s dinner. it is sooooo yummy. i’m going to pull the spinach and chard roots and replant with carrot seeds for a fall harvest. i LOVE my new raised garden bed—no rabbits! still waiting for tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, yellow beans, broccoli, and peas. good luck!
Comment by Terry June 10, 2009 @ 11:25 am