Spinach Fortress: Don’t Laugh — It worked!
The spinach seemed to draw the bunnies as well as the guinea hens (see “Guineas Under House Arrest” below…) so out of desperation one day I put up this stick fence around the spinach and pea bed. You can’t see the peas because the guineas had munched them to the ground when the rabbits weren’t doing the same. It worked! With the guineas secure in their pen, the fence keeps the bunnies at bay. I think it’s kind of cute, so I left it.
We’ve had several spinach salads out of this bed already. It’s spring planted so it’s just now getting going really well. Year before last I planted fall spinach and overwintered it — now THAT’s the way to have big delicious spinach really really early! I hope to remember to do it again this fall.
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If I hope to get ahead of the bermuda grass in my garden paths, I guess I better start in January. I just wish the folks who thought bermuda grass was a good idea had checked into that common name of “Devil Grass!”
My plan of attack is to cover the dormant grass in leaves, top with thick cardboard and more leaves. When the spring rains wet it all down I hope it will rot out the bermuda grass. This is the only non-chemical way I’ve found to overcome it. I got the idea from noticing that a thick layer of oak leaves that have matted down over the lawn and left patches of bermuda-free zone (for a while, at least).
I’ll let you know what happens. Thanks for stopping by!
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