Liz woke up this morning telling me about a dream she had where a groundhog ate all of our plants. After church I checked the plants, and found most of the peppers and 4 tomato plants chewed to the ground! Ugh. It also looked like some of the onion plants were bent over toward the road, so I suspected a ground hog from across the street was visiting. Liz left for Lowes to get 36" x 150' poultry netting. I replaced the peppers with the boys. Liz came back and we put the fence up.
While Liz was getting the boys dinner, I noticed 2 of the peppers I had just planted chewed up! Okay, so not a ground hog. We next suspected a vole, and lifted up some of the landscape fabric to find evidence of tunnelling. I set a mouse trap near one of the remaining pepper plants.
We also covered the tomato plants with plastic. Using the stakes we were able to tent the plastic over the plants. They seemed cozy. Accuweather.com said a low of 25F; weather.com forecasted 29F.
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