Dog damage
Our dog Lucy works overtime
to keep predators away from the perimeter.
Sometimes she gets a little
too aggressive when it comes to small critters and runs them all the
way into the ground.
We briefly considered
building some sort of barrier around each bed, but the damage is rare
and usually easy to fix.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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J --- Usually, she's actually digging up small mammals that are tunneling under the mulch. I've seen her dig up an area about three feet in diameter to get to one.... On the up side, we never have damage of our root crops by small mammals.
Mona --- I tossed those potatoes aside when harvesting because they were green and too small to really peel. I'm hoping they'll rot before spring so that any blight won't be carried over to the new year, but they're still sitting out there! I don't like putting bad potatoes on the compost pile because they'll just grow....