Breaking garden news! The crime spree has ended thanks to this sweet net situation I rigged up. A friend suggested that my vegetable predator could very well be birds (instead of or in addition to rabbits), and seeing as how that stray cat had turned the bed into its litter box (I scooped out the [...]
I'm very sorry to make this blog an all-garden all-the-time affair, but nature is really working against me here. Witness: HAIL. Let's zoom in. To add insult to injury, I looked out the window this morning at the precise moment a stray cat dumped out and covered its tracks by digging in the square of [...]
The rabbit finished off the spinach entirely and moved on to the heads of lettuce. Unacceptable! Jarrod and I will be out of town this weekend and, at the rate of the rabbit's consumption, there would be nothing left in the garden by the time we returned. So, a short-term quick-fix was in order. I [...]
Some monstrous creature has been helping itself to our spinach. It's probably this sort of monster: What a dick.
The law of diminishing returns reigns supreme around here. Every minute over 30 spent making dinner, for example, leads to 5 diminished units of consumption enjoyment. (For the record: Taco Night yields the optimal ratio of minutes spent-to-units of consumption enjoyment.) Projects I find most satisfying, like the catio portal, come together with minimal hassle [...]
Project Palermo 