When it hasn't been snowing/sleeting/raining (most days for the last several weeks), the wind has been blowing at 30-40mph. I haven't gotten to do any yard work since March, when I was able to clean up some of the gardens. I was going thru plant labels last night, in preparation of making more permanent markers, and realized something that had puzzled me as I was cleaning up the roadside garden I put in last summer.
As I was cleaning up old stalks, raking leaves etc, I saw a bunch of perfectly round holes in that garden. They weren't tunnels and I thought maybe squirrels were burying seeds/nuts. I didn't think too much about it and just smoothed the mulch back over it.
So, back to last night, going thru labels there were a bunch for daffodils. I thought they were all to side gardens, from previous years until I saw several with "roadside garden" written on them. As I sat there pondering if I truly wanted to make markers for daffodils, which I would have to match up as they were blooming it hit me - those holes were of squirrels stealing my bulbs this spring.
AARRGGHH - I planted daffodils, because rodents don't care for them and I've never had them taken for eating or transplanting. Heck, some websites claim those bulbs are poisonous to rodents. I know they love tulip bulbs, and I learned years ago not to bother planting them. Crocus are hit or miss, at times they will transplant them.
I am so bummed I won't get a spring show in that area - and the first spring too. Still waiting for the hyacinths in the backyard and shrub garden to do anything but send some green out. Course those areas have been flooded most days so I'm sure that has something to do with it.
You are so organized! If only your mother took after you!
I think I mentioned that a squirrel stuffed itself on daffodil bulbs that I had planted around a little tree last fall; but, it turns out that the squirrel got such a minor fraction that I don't even begrudge it.
My gamble garden of five goodly-sized tomato plants got sucker-punched by the several hours of 25-degree temps that we had a couple of weeks ago. The main stems were still green, so I watered them; but, we're to have 2 or 3 nights of lows in the high 20s, this week. I'll have to try again if I can easily find tomato plants, again.
Posted by: Cop Car | April 12, 2020 at 10:21 AM
Well, I'm still trying to figure out those holes. This week, the foliage for the bulbs sprang up so I should get some color for spring
Hope your tomatoes pull thru - those temps on several nights in a row don't make it likely though.
Posted by: bogie | April 19, 2020 at 06:57 AM