What happens when you don't get your plot saver fence up early enough? Large wildlife find their way into your garden or pumpkin patch and wreak havoc on the young green sunflower stalks... And unfortunately, we had to learn the hard way. Early last week every plant was intact... by Saturday morning the young shoots of sunflowers were missing their leaves... Every last one of them! UGH On a side note: They also sampled several tops out of the bi-colored corn stalks and took a couple of bites of one of the pumpkin plant leaves... Must not have liked them!
Close up of what's left of a couple of sunflower stalks.
And here is the entire row of sunflowers... Tops are GONE.
Lots of hoofprints all over the garden...
And so by golly we had the plot saver up by mid-afternoon - TWO lines of it!
Hopefully, this will deter the hungry wildlife. We would hate to see this lush pumpkin patch go to waste!
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