Tomato Madness

[cranefly]

I think I may be giving up on backyard gardening, at least as I've been doing it.

All I really do anymore is feed the pests.  I only have a few squash plants growing this year, and no sooner did one of them put out a bloom than, bam, it's bit off, as well as every other forming bud, male or female.  Then there's the meyer lemon tree, picked clean.  Could be neighbors in these difficult times, but I'm thinking squirrels, mice, and rats.

The latest victim is my cantaloupe hill.  No, I didn't plant them purposely.  They were volunteers, and I thought they were squash, so I nurtured them.  When I realized they were cantaloupe, I figured, what the heck, I'll grow some cantaloupes.  There were three of them starting, big as softballs, growing great guns.  Then this morning, gone.  All three.  No nibblings, no remnants, no trace whatsoever of them.  What the hell carries off three softball-sized cantaloupe?  And over a wooden fence?  I'm beginning to suspect a wolverine, because at least that would be kinda cool.

But I'm thinking I need a greenhouse.  A cheap one.  You know, Harbor Freight speed.  Not that I want to buy something big right now with LCF and me thinking about moving.  But still, I'd like to continue some gardening.

Anyway, here's three candidates:






They all meet my specs.  Reasonably cheap.  Big enough for some decent vegetable gardening.  Able to keep out rodents and wolverines.  Yet drawing women with flower pots for pollination purposes.  I think that's how that works.

I'll keep you all posted on what happens next.