I went outside today and decided to take a look at my strawberries to see how they were getting along.
They're gone! Something ate them all and I'm placing my bets on the little chickmunks that scamper around our yard.
Posted by bbarton at June 6, 2006 10:05 PMThose bastards!! I still have a ton, but nothing is turning red yet.. all this rain can't be good for that!!
Posted by: xianfern on June 7, 2006 06:35 PMOne of my now dead - alas - American cousins who lived in an old farmhouse in Connecticut called them 'little bitey things.' Visiting English cousin - me - found them deeply exotic. Chipmunks in your back garden...(- or rather 'yard' - those funny Yanks - 'yard' to the English is something small, dank and concrete, out the back). Wow.
Posted by: grannyp on June 8, 2006 03:57 AMTried putting this up before; lost it. Hope you don't get it twice but here goes again. Long lost American cousin called her chipmunks - cavorting around her aged Connecticut farmhouse -'little bitey things' - to visiting English cousin they seemed unbelievably exotic; chipmunks!! in your back 'yard' - yard to the English means something small dank and concrete - as opposite to green which is a garden. All of it wow wow wow. But I guess you don't want them eating your strawberries really.
Posted by: grannyp on June 8, 2006 04:08 AMChosen - I'm doing my best to take care of the orphan chickmunk population I guess.
Xianfern - maybe a sunlamp will do the trick?
Grannyp - twice the comments, twice the fun! They are cute little rodents if you don't care about eating any of the berries that you grow. We had a 'yard' in Philadelphia...it was small, dank, and concrete but we called it home. lol
Posted by: Bob on June 8, 2006 08:45 AM
My dad tried growing strawberries for decades, but the squirrels, chipmonks, and birds always got them before us. He tried every trick in the book to keep them away from the strawberries, but nothing worked. Crafty little devils, those rodents.
Posted by: Chosen on June 7, 2006 08:16 AM