After critters ate about 3/4 of my chickpeas, I still harvested almost enough to replace what I’d planted.
Yeah, fences going up next year. Definitely.
I have piles and piles of seeds drying now. Tomatoes, squash, beans, chickpeas, etc. And my tomatoes keep ripening! They need caged better next time, they’re folding in on themselves so much it’s hard to see if there are tomatoes under all that vine.
Not much to report this week, I won’t be getting out to my land because of the rain expected, and everything is kind of finishing up. I do have 3 tupperware full of squash and a slow cooker full of tomatoe sauce in the fridge that I need to do something with.
Mainly I’m just tired.
"Good fences make good neighbors", and that applies to making decent neighbors out of critters, too.
Right now, your kitchen sounds like ours. Then there's the utility room...
The orange ones are the accidental cross of buttercup with pink babana squash: I planted them next to each other last year, then saved seed from one of the buttercups & planted it this year. The white ones are "Bennington's Green Tint" pattypan that I let go to collect seed from...well isolated! The greens, of course, are the buttercups from the vines that didn't produce the orange crosses; but I won't trust their seed, as I know that they are not only most likely crosses, but would have recrossed with the orange ones, which,BTW, have small vestigial 'cup' on the blossom end.