Omnivorous and wily rodents, hungry squirrels are difficult to keep away from bulbs and tender shoots, and they tear through a plastic bird feeder to get ever last seed.
While mostly harmless to the home gardener, chipmunks are known to feed on newly seeded garden beds. They can be a nuisance in rock gardens as well, where they burrow
Birds like lots of the same foods we grow for ourselves, and they don’t have the good manners to leave some for others. Tactics from row covers to scarecrows can
Let us go after those slimy little critters; the little culprits that you find on leaves filled with holes that have clean edges, often with a shiny trail of slime