I've been so pleased with my kitchen garden this year. Not only is it looking productive, neat & tidy and relatively weed-free (apart from the ones I'm allowing to grow, such as borage and poppies), but I'm also hoping it's going to be really pretty this year!
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| Pretty fruits & herbs bed |
However. Someone has been messing with me. A few days ago, having skipped joyfully down to admire my artwork, I was devastated to find lots of little mouse-sized potholes all over the peas & flowers bed! :'( They'd even dug up several nasturtiums, I think they'd been having a munch on the roots.
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| Mouse-sized holes |
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| A repaired and watered nasturtium not looking to bright |
My newly planted broccoli plants were completely annihilated.
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| Before |
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| After |
I didn't take any photos of the pothole damage because I just got started repairing it all straight away.
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| Peas & flowers bed now after repairs |
I think I managed to salvage most of it, but it's spoilt the joyful anticipation I feel every time I trot down to the kitchen garden. >(
I have spotted several field mice hopping and skipping about down there among me veg, but we also have a LOT of birds, living in the woods as we do. In particular a noisy, but beautiful, male pheasant that struts around the garden almost every day, as well as lots and lots of pigeons.
So who is it?!
