Do you plant a vegetable garden?
Maybe just some herbs in pots on a window sill.
Or tomato plants in pots on a deck or patio or perhaps in one of those upside down bags.

No matter the size or type, isn't it satisfying to pick and eat something you've grown?
That is if you get it before the critters do.

I've given up planting a vegetable garden since I have an empty nest.
One year I read that if you plant marigolds around your garden the rabbits won't touch it.
So I tried it. I planted yellow marigolds all around my cabbage plants in the open field.
It worked, that is until I went to harvest them and a ground hog had eaten the marigolds and the cabbages. I guess it only works for rabbits.

The next year I put a chicken wire fence around my garden.
The ground hog did what he does best. He dug a hole on the outside of the fence and came up the exit on the inside of the garden.
He had his own entrance to the supermarket.

I learned you just can't best the critters. So you have to plant some for them and some for you.

Happy planting.