{"id":686,"date":"2010-05-20T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2010\/05\/who-ate-my-sweet-potato-plants.html"},"modified":"2021-06-21T16:44:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T20:44:55","slug":"who-ate-my-sweet-potato-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homegardenjoy.com\/site\/2010\/05\/who-ate-my-sweet-potato-plants.html","title":{"rendered":"Who Ate My Sweet Potato Plants?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Okay, ‘fess up. Who ate my sweet potato plants<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After all the “Am I planting these right?” and questions from the spouse “Are we even going to get $16 worth of potatoes out of the $16 we spent on these root things?” I left the garden bed to be soaked with rain this week. Today was the first sunny, warm day, so I traipsed down to the fenced-in vegetable garden to check my sweet potatoes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And half were GONE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not just “it keeled over and died” gone, with a little sad stem left. I mean – gone. Absent. As if I’d never planted it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But only in the big bed. The others I’d tucked into the onion bed were all accounted for and perky. Here’s a picture of one, pretty as can be, happy and green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But where did his friends go? Why am I missing half of my seedlings?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what is eating these? The garden is fenced. I checked the fence. It’s tight. No holes or tunnels dug underneath. The ground is soft enough to show footprints….Shadow’s tracks were clear, and I didn’t see deer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Someone send Columbo. Jessica Fletcher. Monk. Yes, I want Adrian Monk here to figure out the case of “Who are my sweet potato plants?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I’ve got sneak out to Lowe’s and find replacements before the spouse realizes that some critter ate $16 bucks worth of seedlings in one night. Boy, I will never hear the end of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, ‘fess up. Who ate my sweet potato plants? After all the “Am I planting these right?” and questions from the spouse “Are we even going to get $16 worth of potatoes out of the $16 we spent on these root things?” I left the garden bed to be soaked with rain this week. Today…<\/p>\n

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