when are you sowing your garden this year?

[Brian]

That's a good point. I have a barrel of potatoes about half full now that I've slowly been adding dirt to, and it's growing like crazy. I'm supposed to have some good fingerlings dropped off this week too, and I'll need another bucket to grow those guys in as well...

[rbeau30]

That's a good point. I have a barrel of potatoes about half full now that I've slowly been adding dirt to, and it's growing like crazy. I'm supposed to have some good fingerlings dropped off this week too, and I'll need another bucket to grow those guys in as well...

Mine seem to love the all day sun, they pretty much have been growing an inch or more a day. I hope the potatoes are as well. :-) I also read somewhere that the fingerlings give a better yield for container-grown potatoes. Anyone know if that is correct? I bought red seed potatoes for this year because that was what was on sale.

[blm28]

Deer got three of my cabbage plants last night.

[rbeau30]

Deer got three of my cabbage plants last night.

If you were in a Preparedness situation, I'd say you could have come out ahead.

I hear you need really tall fences to keep those buggers out. Scarecrow? With some predator scent?

[blm28]

I usually put out a sprinkler with a motion detector, it works pretty good. Didn't get it out soon enough this year.

[Brian]

Anybody have raccoon problems? I've been warned they will ruin any garden I try to grow. Looking for ideas. I'm going to get one of those motion detector sprinklers, and I built a little cage over the strawberries, will probably rig up some sort of netting or chicken wire or something for the raspberries if needed as well. But I don't have a clue how to protect the big raised garden bed... other than to buy some NV goggles and sit outside all night long.

[blm28]

The only problem I have had with racoons is sweet corn. Every time I have planted it they go through and strip every ear about three days before I think it's ready to pick. Finally gave up.

[Wulf202]

Ive got a dog that keeps everything but the smaller birds away. Of course she tramples a little bit of the crop to sniff around

[clodhopper]

Ive got a dog that keeps everything but the smaller birds away. Of course she tramples a little bit of the crop to sniff around

ditto. I put up a livestock electric fence around the garden. She will hit it once in the spring and then I turn it off but leave the wire up. She will tear ass out to the garden when a bird or squirrel is around, but pulls up to a screeching halt at the wire. Works good, critter defense and no trampled plants.


I have been known to put up a piece of wire (not connected to anything) to dissuade other bad doggy habits.

[HoneyBadger]

But I don't have a clue how to protect the big raised garden bed... other than to buy some NV goggles and sit outside all night long.

I'm almost to this point with the damned rabbits and all the flowers we planted in the front yard this year. Fortunately, I don't have to deal with raccoons.