My garden, more specifically my tomatoes, always are invaded by creatures of the flying sort....birds. I have tried all thedifferent methods to persuade them to stay away from it but nothing ever seems to work 100% except for bird netting. Bird netting is not the most attractive thing to have around your garden especially if it is quite visible. This year I have wrapped/draped the netting over the garden but I am in theprocess of building a frame for it so it will be more attractive and more accessible to retrieve the fruit of my labors. Yesterday I happened to check on the garden and found a rat that had infiltrated the garden fortress and in the process tangled his neck up in the netting. I assume he had been there a while because he had managed to tangle and twist the netting up pretty good. I ended up cutting the netting around him but there was no way I was going to clip the netting that was close to his neck. Once freed I tossed him onto the golf course behind our house ( I am not that well off, it is a public/city course).In the meantime I hope him or any of his friends do not come back anytime soon......
aww that's the cutest rat ever. your home grown tomatoes look great! i loooooove heirloom tomatoes. unfortunately i have a black thumb.
Posted by: susan | July 28, 2009 at 05:16 PM