RATHER THAN DELVING into new material, I’d like to report on unfolding developments from prior topics.
I’ve mentioned my ongoing struggle with assorted critters, not limited to chipmunks, rabbits, moles, voles, squirrels, various birds and deer. I began gardening in this yard some 40 years ago. For the first 20 years, I had no negative interactions with any of these creatures. But the struggle has intensified, especially since the sad demise of the family cat, Boo-Boo.
Skirmishing has devolved into a game of one-upmanship and there is evidence of inter-species communication and cooperation. If I put protective fencing up around some plants, it is soon breached. They tunnel under it, scale over it or gnaw through it.
Occasionally I gain an edge, like when I planted part of my vegetable garden in containers on a second-story deck and invested in
