Been there, done that, got my plants dug up by the roots anyway. The latest escalation: It's been about a week since I did this and it seems to have worked. That's the second brandy boy tomato they attacked btw, apparently they love destroying that variety in particular. It survived, and is starting to bounce back now that it's no longer under siege all the time.
I've learned that fake cobwebs over bushes/small trees is a good deterrent to birds—unsure how well it'd work against squirrels, though...
Spoiler: pretty morbid this might sound gross but at my house we kill and eat the squirrels that are causing damage and when we skin them we let some of their blood get in the dirt of the pots theyve been digging in. It's. a pretty good deterrent to say the least.
These are city squirrels with zero fucks to give. They'll walk right up to you and they live in the attic (I rent so there's nothing I can do about it). I once had one run up my leg. Last year they dug up all my pots and buried peanuts that they stole from one of the neighbors. Spoiler: animal death My parents are slightly more rural than me, so my dad can get away with shooting them out the back window. I can't do that in the city but I have considered running a current through the wire mesh to make them jump.
we have some tomato sprouts on the windowsill to get started before we transplant them outside and they are getting QUITE leggy, i lov them
I really like leggy tomatoes actually. Tomatoes do this thing where if you bury the stem, it sprouts more root. Most people cut off the first couple leaf sets and then plant them so that the new length is buried but I always worry about that opening pathways for various soil born infections. With leggy toms you don't have to cut anything, just wait for the seed leaves to drop off naturally, then plant them long long boys :D
I've got almost 20 pots on my balcony right now, and today I set up a bee hotel and a bee waterer on one side. Now all I need is a hammock and it will be perfect. In a few weeks my climbing plants should be well on their way up the trellis to give me a nice privacy barrier.
Pictured in bloom: Sage, Chives and Raspberries. Not in bloom: the oregano because I have been aggressively pinching it back to force it to bush out more
That hydroponics video inspired me to look up carrots that are good for containers and I found the tonda di parigi Look at them i want fifty Also there's at least one bee using my bee hotel and im so stoked
Maters....... Spoiler: more maters here's the side I Haven't weeded yet I'm. Sweaty. Also Cucumbers! And Squash and Zucchini!
Came back from the farmer's market with toms, eggplant several pepper varieties and the last yellow strawberry plant one lady had at her stand. She had white strawberries and a couple different blue berry bush varieties too but I ran out of money so I'm going back for those next week.
