No, I don’t mean tonight’s dinner. That one I just ate, a delicious oxtail stew. Someone ate my February or March kale. Argh! those caterpillars or whomever it was…
Who ate my lettuce?
For the last couple of months I haven’t noticed chewing monsters in my garden so I let my guard down. I guess I am back on a war foot. I’ve got chewed up kale and lettuce plants, rodents burrowing among my newly planted onions, and aphids making themselves comfortable in the fava beans… In the southern California garden no one takes a winter break and the gardener shouldn’t either!
January 4, 2010 at 12:20 pm
arghh! Someone has been eating my future dinner too! Mostly spinach. But the arugula seems to be too spicy for whoever this particular diner is. I love the title of this post.
January 5, 2010 at 1:48 am
Actually, my arugula is also untouched. And my larger brassicas too. But after posting this, I noticed that my peas are also all chewed up. I found some earwigs on the eaten edges of the lettuce, but I’m not sure I can blame the whole mess on them. Oh, well…