Monday, April 05, 2010
Mystery No More
I planted my peas today. I have been finding crocus in places where I  don't recall planting any and today I found 7 in the vegetable garden  where I know I didn't plant any. At the same time the ones I did  plant aren't coming up. I attribute it to our farmer chipmunks. Every  year we have clumps of sunflowers, a dozen or more seeds in a tight  cluster, pop up in odd places throughout the garden. The chipmunks  gather up seeds beneath the feeders then dash off with their cheeks  bulging to stash them. Apparently they are burying them in the garden.  In past years this activity has been limited to sunflower seeds but now  the crocus that I planted in the bed by the front gate are missing but  there are crocus in the raised garden beds. As a further tip off, one of  the relocated crocus was right next to a chipmunk burrow. I've marked  them with bamboo stakes and after they've stopped blooming I'll move  them back to the flower bed and scatter some moth balls around them. Moth balls deter rabbits. I'm hoping that will work for chipmunks too.
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