All six broccoli plants...decimated.
Three of four cantaloupe plants...decimated.
One of four zucchini plants...damaged.
Two of six yellow bean plants...damaged.
Somebunny's gonna have to pay for all of that!!!
I am beyond irritated. When I got home from the gym last night and while the pizza was baking, Chris said, "Come with me, I want to show you something." We started walking toward the garden and I said, "If you're walking me out here to show me more rabbit damaged, we might as well just turn around because I don't want to see it...I don't want to be angry tonight." With that, Chris turned around. I said, "Are you kidding me?!?" (Confession...that question was peppered with a few expletives.) That's when Chris showed me all of the damage. The secondary fence is going in this weekend. I wonder how much BB guns go for these days?!?
On a lighter note, the tomatoes, peppers, onions, and Chris' heavily guarded pumpkin plant are doing quite well. Things are doing equally fine in the butterfly/hummingbird garden as well as the gardens around front. I will be adding some pictures this weekend once I pull all of them off my new digital camera.
Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris) activity continues at the feeder. One night earlier this week, past dusk, I saw the male sitting on the shepherd's hook and watched him watching for the female. She would fly in and try to feed and he would chase her off. He would return to feed and then sit on the hook again, looking this way and that until she'd fly back in.
The second bunch of House Sparrows (Passer domesticus) has fledged from the box and already there is new nest building activity. The new nest in box #1 that was started nearly two weeks ago now had 4 House Sparrow eggs in it Wednesday evening.
Once the rain finally stops, I need to refill my bird feeders and plant Mountain Bluet (Centaurea montana) in the bf/hb garden and I need plant my new hibiscus, too (thanks, Mom!). I also have new hope for the hibiscus I planted toward the end of last summer. Here I thought I'd been sold a bill of goods by one of Ocean City's Farmers' Market vendors, but apparently, hibiscus plants don't even begin to show signs of life in Zone 5 until mid-June. So I have another few weeks before I can get discouraged again. Hopefully, I won't. Hopefully one of these days I'll start to see some green emerging from under the mulch. Oh! Also, I didn't lose my balloon flower! It is another one that is very slow to come back, but it reemerged last weekend and is already taking off!
Until next time, keep your eyes open for wild wonders...
Friday, June 5, 2009
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