Tiny Explorer

 

Momo the tiny explorer inspecting the grounds.

We have some container gardening going on in the backyard this year. We got rid of our garden beds after a disastrous year of having all our vegetables devoured by birds and critters. We had lovely strawberries and watermelon and peppers forming and then they were gone. I put up nets but somehow they managed to get past them. And so we decided to good bye to gardening.

But I missed growing some of our own food and so after taking a year off we decided to take it easy and plant just a few things this year - tomatoes, cucumbers, basil and perilla leaves - things we love to eat. I took a risk and skipped the seed starter part and planted them right in our containers. Then the very next day squirrels came and dug everything up.

I have since used a net to cover all our containers but what began as high hopes of having good harvest this year turned quickly turned to quite a dreadful forecast.