Mother Nature and her critters
I walked out to my garden this morning to see just what the coons had done to my corn. It was raining yesterday so I couldn’t look. Well, not only did the durned things eat the corn, they destroyed the patch.
They ripped off the cobs, bent over the stalks and even carried husks out into the lawn. Durned critters!
So then I went to check my tomatoes which hubby had covered while I was gone because the weather was supposed to get down to freezing. My plants are all shriveled up! They didn’t look like they had been covered at all! When I asked hubby, he said he did cover them 3 nights in a row. Either he didn’t get them covered totally or the 24 degrees was just too much for the blankets. So now I have what few tomatoes were on the plants, sitting on the picnic table hoping they will ripen.
Besides the tomatoes, the potatoes are froze too. As soon as the ground dries up a little, I will have to get out there and dig them up. Hopefully, that will be done by Thursday as we’re expecting more rain. I sure hope that I get a good crop of potatoes. I’m tired of paying $5 for 5#, especially when we grow potatoes here in the state.
The bean patch is wiped out too from the freeze. There were still beans in the one row, but guess they will now go back as compost for the garden. After canning 28 qts of beans, I’m about canned out. So now I need to put my canner away too.
The carrots are the only thing left in the garden that are still green. Thank goodness they didn’t freeze yet. It will give me time to dig the potatoes and onions.
I sure hope the sun comes out so it can dry stuff off. I don’t like digging in mud.