I was hoping I’d have a massive crop of spinach under the row covers in my backyard garden this winter. But not a single surviving seedling came of the hundreds of spinach seeds I planted in late August, hoping for a fall harvest and maybe even a crop that would overwinter. What I’m left with under cover from my end-of-summer planting is some oakleaf and speckled lettuce, parsley, hakurei turnips, volunteer cilantro from my summer crop, mustard greens, kale and a couple of collards.
Where was this guy (see below) all summer long when I could have used regular visits by wily carnivores to keep the squirrels out of my tomatoes and up in the trees. I hadn’t seen a fox in my backyard for awhile but I knew they are lots of them here in Mt. Airy near the Wissahickon Creek watershed.
