I'm so depressed. I went out to the garden to start prepping for the year, and found all of my garlic eaten but 3. My guess, from research, is that a squirrel (or more than one) was the culprit. Never in all the years here has this happened. Rabbits, deer and ground hogs do not like garlic, so I am just guessing. They have plenty of black walnuts to provide, so I am stumped as to why it happened, other than the smell of the dogs is not out there anymore (guess I'm gettin' a dog).
I want to now spring plant my garlic, so it cost me an arm and a leg to order some to plant. I didn't record how many I planted last year for some reason. I think it was a crazy fall due to my husband's sister passing away from covid, and Mom's health declining.
I typically plant 80-100 cloves, so this is a tremendous loss with organic garlic. It's just such a shock, because nothing likes the smell of garlic. We toyed with the idea that I forgot to plant them. I did not. I remember planting.
We toyed with the idea that someone stole them. Ha ha! Actually, it's not such a crazy idea. Every day for the last two weeks a car has been stolen in the city about 12 miles from us, and now they are breaking into chicken coops. Seriously. Stealing kids bicycles, and more.
I plan to pull the pea fence. We didn't get any planted with this crazy kitchen floor repair, and we need to till that area as well.
I finally got the carpet spot cleaned from Daughter K's dogs being here, and laundry put on the line, but got zero painting done.
I believe it's finally time to call an exterminator, unless someone has a sure fire way to trap those big bumblebees (a LOT of them). I've tried every year, and they get worse every year. Yesterday they were swarming the doors of the house and porch. I cannot for the life of me find the nests, but I'm guessing they are by one of the barns, by they way they swarm over there.