My garden has done surprisingly well so far this summer. The constant rain storms and moist air over the past several weeks have definitely helped. I've already picked a few pounds of green beans and had a zucchini too. Unfortunately my spaghetti squash is getting so large its growing out and over the fence making it susceptible to all the critters in my yard to chomp away at each evening. I feared it was deer initially and was told that urine around the perimeter of the garden would keep them away. My boys were quite excited when I told them for the remainder of the summer they were allowed to occasionally urinate around the edge of the garden when they needed to, making sure to tell them not to do it when company's over or their friends. I kind of regretted this open invitation when I watched four different times Tyler and Bryce walk out into the yard this afternoon and walk around the garden urinating with their pants down around their ankles. I'm grateful we at least have a private yard.
Tonight as we ate dinner I watched our resident ground hog who lives under our shed run out and start eating away at it again. I opened the back door and he quickly ran off. For the third summer in a row, I said how we really need to get a trap for our friend the ground hog and find him a new home before he ruins all of our hard work. My animal loving boys are always dead set against it. I decided to ask their advice on how we could keep the ground hog, but still protect the garden. These were some of their ideas:
1. Put up a big wire bubble over the entire garden (Tyler). wasn't sure how we'd actually get into the garden to pick vegetables though
2. Build the ground hog his own house next to the shed and put food in it every day so he wouldn't have to go eat out of our garden (Bryce)
3. Make a trail of food leading away from the back yard and into the front yard so the ground hog can live in our front yard and leave the garden alone. (Tyler)
4. Plant another garden in the front yard thats just for the ground hog to eat out of (Tyler)
5. Put out a trap to catch him but then let him be our pet inside the house (Bryce)
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