Who/What is raiding your vege Patch?

A Delaware gardener was at his wits end.
“I was really upset because I didn’t know what was eating out of the garden,”
“I thought it was a deer, or it could have been a rabbit.”
He set up a motion-detection camera to catch the vegetable thief in the act. When he eplayed the footage, he saw a groundhog “just staring at the camera”.
“He was kind of saying, ‘Yeah, I’m eating your vegetables, what are you going to do about it?’ He was just so cool about it.”
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Having a groundhog day?

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Awww, those groundhogs look so cute! :heart_eyes:… it must be annoying if they raid your veg patch, though!

The worst predators of our veg patches in my neck of the woods in the English rural gardens of Yorkshire is rabbits for veg and birds for berry fruits - Oh, and caterpillars!
I have given up trying grow the stuff that they like to eat! - the blackbirds love my apples but they take the windfall fruits, so they are welcome to them - in fact, I save most of my apples to throw back on the lawn under the apple trees during the Winter months to feed the blackbirds and any other critters who may eat them,

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But they become butterflies :grinning:
Blackbirds pooing the seeds have planted a lot of bushes in our garden.

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I know! I had to stop growing brassicas because I could not bear to get rid of the clusters of eggs that “cabbage butterflies” laid on the underside of the plant leaves - if I didn’t remove them, then the caterpillars would eat the veg plants to extinction!

Now, I have removed that dilemma - I just buy my veg and enjoy seeing all the butterflies cavort amongst the flowering plants in my garden and I leave the caterpillars to munch their way through whatever they want!

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