The 50 Mile Diet

I am not an angry sort of person. Little things make me happy and bad things I try to float through. But it’s hard to write sometimes. In this case, critters have been impacting my world. I know it’s natural. I know they’re just doing their thing, surviving. I know that I prefer to live in a wooded area where there actually are animals hanging around. And so I should just be quiet about the animals interfering with my garden.

But it’s not supposed to turn into a battle.

The strawberries. Hundreds of them were in my fenced-in garden. It’s got rabbit fencing and netting around that. So how could it be that I keep finding bunnies in the strawberry patch? Little Peter Rabbits that are so tiny they get in and around and under my fencing! I decided to leave the little bunnies alone since they won’t be little for long and then they won’t be able to get in. (right?)

Satisfied, I was sitting in my screen porch, watching the garden grow, and saw two squirrels hop over the fence and start to eat. Seriously? So now there’s netting above the garden too.

So do I have any strawberries? Nope. None. Went picking last week instead. Got some gorgeous berries at Klingelhutz in Waconia.

Now for the lettuce update. Cooler temps and some rain have finally given my salad table the stuff it needed. I will be eating lettuce this week. And then some. I don’t think I’d use this medium again — soil might be easier. I also need to learn to place the seeds more spaced apart so that the roots have some room…..But I like the table.