[unprintable] rodents!

Some [expletive deleted] animal, probably the groundhog, ate the leaves of nearly all my edamame plants!

I am supremely ticked. Tomorrow after work I'm buying and installing a fence to protect the last couple of edamame plus my little cucumber and nasturtium seedlings.

I'm doing my best to be philosophical about this. I've lost only about $3 plus a couple of hours' work. It's not like we have to rely on our crops for our food the way subsistence farmers do.

Garden update

First off, did I mention that our Garden Pool has become the Suicide Pool for local small fauna? The count for the last month has been five birds and a squirrel. The pool got drained yesterday and today, needless to say. Now there's just enough water to keep the two-legged tadpoles alive till I can transfer them to a nearby stream.

The pool is possibly going to become a zen garden, though I'm more inclined to just make it another planting bed.

Some kind of animal--my best guess is either squirrels or the local groundhog--has been marauding in *my garden*. I'm betting on the groundhog because the carefully placed cat-hair combings did nothing to save my six newly-planted sunflower seeds or all-but-two of the sunflower seedlings from two weeks ago. Then there's four or five demolished cucumber and nasturtium seedlings.

$%)#$ nature!

The edamame are growing beautifully though; they're nearly a foot high already. I just hope the rain stops soon because now everything could really use some sun (including us humans!)