Cosmos Carnage
Photo © Kerry Michaels
I am truly bereft. I planted two rows of cosmos in my raised bed and was so pleased that they were growing so quickly and were looking stocky and chipper. Well today when I went to admire them, I discovered that almost all of them had been massacred - eaten or stomped to death by some marauding critter.
I'm guessing that it was the woodchuck I saw speed waddling away into the woods. This is not the first time I've had my cosmos done in. I guess they are to be a particularly delectable flower - but I thought these were getting big enough so I could stop worrying about them.
I even tried to protect the bed by liberally sprinkling around a product made of ground up hot peppers, which promised to repel critters. I think the woodchuck thought it was a condiment. All I can say is that I hope whoever ate my plants gets terrible indigestion.
Comments
Cosmos will grow in my container next season.
We have a huge woodchuck in our yard also…. last year he picked off our tomatoes and ate one bite out of each. Looking for sweetest ones I guess. He lives under our shed and we’ve tried the Have-a-heart traps but nothing works.
I’m convinced that the only thing that foils a determined woodchuck is a big strong, or electrified fence. I put a really pathetic looking, but fairly serious fence around my raised beds and so far it is working.