Have you ever walked out into the garden on a beautiful morning?

You got a nice coffee, you're feeling good, maybe you had your multivitamins and you've

done a stretch, a little skincare routine, and then you come out and you just see absolute

desolation and destruction.

Well that's pretty much every morning for me these days because I have found some filthy

little critters in my garden, unexpected garden surprises, and I'll talk about those,

but Chris, I'm curious for you, what is some sort of oddball thing that happened to you

this year in the garden?

Well, one oddball thing that was negative, again with probably a fuzzy creature, something

came into the back garden and ate a whole bunch of my beautiful kales, and I mean, kales

are fine, I have a kales growing elsewhere, but my perennial nine star cauliflower, I mean

I love perennial plants, and the idea is to have them for more than a couple of seasons,

and for something to come and bite the top of the plant off and also chew the base, I'm

like, oh man, all that work, trying to grow it to a nice size so that it can stay in that

bed for hopefully more than four years, just kind of, so that was one of them this year,

just the nine star cauliflower.

When you lose a plant to something so acute, like a rodent coming through, past coming

through, it's almost so disrespectful because they obviously they do not understand what

they're doing, you know, it's just a plant to them where they're trying to get the grubs.

For me, the thing that gets really annoying is the raccoon or skunk will dig up specifically

the garden, the garlic bed, where there's all those figure beetle grubs, it has no clue

that I've replanted the same dang fig, or the same dang garlic, excuse me, that it's dug

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