As I mentioned earlier, we’ve got a cat invading the garden. He started off munching on the potato plants, then discovered the poor broccoli starts.
What to do? Well, we’re kinda busy and the cat seems to be making his away around the garden without totally destroying the plants (yet). So for now, we took the poor man’s route: an old bean trellis (aka chicken wire strapped to two broom handles) dropped over the starters.
Hopefully, this will make our plot sufficiently annoying enough that he’ll move onto the next garden. The more permanent plan (I mean, we’re going to grow beans at some point and we’re going to need that trellis!) is to place some plastic collars (aka old milk jugs) around the starters high enough that the cat won’t bother them. Plus, the broccoli can still grow up and not into the chicken wire.
The cat doesn’t seem to be eating the mature broccoli growing in some of the other plots in our little community garden, so perhaps these guys just need to grow big enough that their leaves no longer taste as delicious to Meow Mix.
