This is roughly the harvest every other day. Already have a gallon freezer bag full. No complaints here.
Carrots and peppers were kind of a wash last year so we just let the strawberries run rampant. They’re happy as hell and the fruits are have gotten bigger as the plants matured. The left side was clear enough to put beans where the tomato plants used to be. I was planning on skipping tomatoes as well because they got absurdly large and bent their cages, but some of the fallen ones must have seeded because we had 3 little tomato plants shooting up. They’re in separate pots now and hopefully that’ll be more manageable.
How do you keep rabbits and squirrels from eating them?
No joke. I have a rather large bed and colony of plants and none of this tracks for my experience.
Also curious about this! Rabbits are stealing all our berries, and especially as the plants start taking over the beds
You can mix extremely hot hot sauce (my recommendation is Da Bomb Evolution)* and water and spray it in a wide arc on the ground/grass and on your plants. Most animals HATE spice and especially getting it on their paws, which they have to lick clean. One or two times of spice events, and they won’t come back for awhile. You can respray every few weeks to keep animals at bay. Just be sure to wear swim goggles and a mask, as it can pepperspray you too. Be sure to rinse your fruit before eating, of course. But ideally, you won’t even have to spray the actual fruit.
*A bunch of us did a big wing night challenge on a ski trip, and Da Bomb Evolution is far and away the most hot and horrible hot sauce. Not a great flavor, but extremely spicy as a novelty sauce.
We used hula hoops, schedule 40 and some cheap netting. This was from early May i think.
Ooohh. I like that. Thank you for the great advice!
I always spend hours looking for fancy garden setups then give myself a 20 dollar budget and improvise lol
The squirrels eat the fallen seeds from the bird feeder, and the buns just haven’t shown up yet I guess. We have some netting we’re going to throw over the beds but thankfully no critter issues so far.