We almost didn’t plant a garden this year because of our neighbor’s chickens. They have at least 25-30 free range chickens and yes, you guessed it – our yard is part of their range. There isn’t much we can do about the situation so it looked as if a garden wasn’t an option. Fencing is expensive so we couldn’t afford to do the whole garden. We finally decided we could borrow some plastic fencing that my brother had, which saved us a lot of money, and the rest we finished off with the cheapest chicken wire we could find.
After putting up the fence we realized the cabbage was still being devoured. I thought it might be bugs so I sprayed it but with no effect. Later we saw that birds were eating the cabbage. We put up a scare-a-crow , of sorts, which helped about one day. Now they are back with a vengeance. A lot of our corn didn’t come up either so I replanted. As I was digging I found a lot of red ants and a number of the old corn seeds-hollowed out. Apparently ants like corn too.
Between all our feathered friends and crawling creatures I’m not sure how much produce we will get but we’ll keep trying.
We used the yogurt containers on the fence posts to cover the seedlings over night to help protect them from getting eaten. During the day we just hung them on the posts. We just haven't gotten around to taking them off yet.
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