The good news is that my daylilies have returned. Several of them had totally died back in the heat, and things looked discouraging on that account.
In the meantime, I got more plants for the back yard (and perhaps some for the front, I haven't decided yet).
I'm having a terrible time with something stealing seed potatoes and eating the tops off of plants. I'm calling it the Rascal Thief, because whoever it is can climb onto 4 foot high shelves covered with 2" pots, eat the top off of a plant, steal a potato out of its container, and get away without disturbing the other plants.
This thing has eaten all my peppers, the tops off my tomato plants, a whole basil plant, all my potted collards, and a whole lot of other things. It has climbed up on things and stolen slices of pineapple rind that I had lying out drying for my rabbits.
It's a mystery that about has me wanting to buy a surveillance camera to see what this is that's stealing and eating.
So when I got these new plants in yesterday, I got worried that they were going to end up missing today, all eaten before they had a chance to grow up. Then I got an inspiration.
I put them into a cage I had sitting around, covered them with shade cloth (it was still hot and sunny), and thought everything would be fine.
Here's what I saw today:
The cage was still covered with the shade cloth and the door was latched. I counted the plants and they were all there. But some of them appeared to have been eaten:
The arrows show where the plant was bitten off cleanly.
And this one seems to have been lifted!
I have no idea what could have done this. A raccoon, maybe? I've never seen any here. This is really a mystery to me.
Any ideas as to the identity of the Rascal Thief?
Raccoon was my first thought.
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