Every morning I go outside to look at the garden plot, and every morning there are new holes that the rats have dug. Update: I don’t think it’s rats — I think it’s squirrels!

Stories from someone who is learning to grow
Every morning I go outside to look at the garden plot, and every morning there are new holes that the rats have dug. Update: I don’t think it’s rats — I think it’s squirrels!
A couple of weeks ago, I showed you the lettuce starts I planted in an raised bed. The rats had been getting into the bed, digging holes, and disturbing the plants and their roots. I stuck plastic forks and knives in the ground around the lettuce starts to discourage the rats from digging.
Here’s what the bed looked like when I put up the fork fortress: