We bought all of our garden seeds today and I am so excited! Now I have to do some researching about how to plant a raised bed garden. We will also need a critter fence. Or just Fred.
Fred was our landlord at MSU. He was in his eighties and used to shoot everything that looked at or came near our garden when we were in grad school. He was a crazy old guy!
One time he shot a skunk in his front yard and I swear that it smelled for 5 miles. As soon as you turned off the expressway you were hit with the smell! I can not even explain how strong the smell was. I was so sure that I hit the skunk with my car that I got out and checked under my car when I got home to make sure I wasn't dragging a skunk carcass along.
I used to go over and yell at him about all of his shooting, but he used to say "Oh, that was just a warning shot. I didn't really shoot anything." Uh huh right.
He even tried to deny the skunk shooting, but he knew that I had him dead to rights. His yard smelled for weeks!
Sometimes I would get woken up at 2 in the morning by a gunshot. The next morning I would go over to Fred's house and give him a piece of my mind. But he would pretend that he didn't know what I was talking about and insist that I dreamed the whole incident.
It was enough to drive a person batty. BUT we never had to put up a fence around our garden. We had great produce and hardly ever had anything eaten by animals. So the trade off wasn't bad...
Here we will probably have issues with deer in our garden. We have a groundhog too, but John had a live trap and plans to relocate him shortly. The church up the road is probably wondering why they have a groundhog infestation problem, but I am going to take Fred's lead and pretend that they don't know what they are talking about and insist that they must have dreamed the whole incident.
Now if John were relocating skunks, then that would be a different story altogether...
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