Joe's Place

In the previous post, we were all set with our lovely new raised garden. All that was left was for the good Lord to shine His warm sun down and bring the gentle rain to nourish our babies and help them to grow. Heirloom tomatoes and green bell peppers would just be right around the corner. Our plan was coming together quite nicely. That is until we encountered an small unexpected setback.

It seems that humans aren’t the only ones that like home grown vegetables. Apparently rabbits have a real taste for vegetables and worse, they don’t need to have the fruit for sustenance. They like the plant all by itself. And so, we were very surprised one morning when we awoke to find a tiny, 4″ long bare stem that was once a bell pepper plant. Unbelievable, I thought. I felt like I had been violated.

So now it  was time to fight back and off I went to the big box home improvement store. I returned armed with a defense strategy to thwart the bunny menaces. “They aren’t going to eat the fruits of my labor,” I told myself. And after another hour of labor and sweat in the mid-day sun, I was pretty pleased with the result.

With the bunny preventer all set up. It’s time to do a quick financial reckoning of our project. Let’s see add another $25.00 to the our previous expenses and we’re now into our future vegetables to the tune of $95.00. These babies better taste good! I can’t wait for the squirrels to figure out there’s not a top on this thing.