Some of the lettuces I started early are getting robust enough that I can snip a few leaves and encourage more growth. In another day or two I should have enough for everyone in my family to have a dinner salad. I can't wait!While I was harvesting the lettuces, I noticed this nice set of paw prints next to the peas:
I don't know for sure who they belong to. Any ideas? In a previous post I had some much shallower prints to work with. My best guesses were opossum, skunk or raccoon.
From this set of prints today, I can (thankfully) eliminate skunk as a possibility. The toes of skunk tracks are not long and slender like the specimen in my garden.
Raccoon and opossum are very similar in the front paws and very different in their hind paws. The good mud that this critter stepped in does not seem to show the opposable thumb.
To discourage further visits from the critters who keep eating my green beans as soon as the shoots erupt from under the soil we invested in some Deer Scram. It makes me so mad that they eat those seedlings! I planted two packets of bean seeds and I'll end up with fewer than 20 plants. If it works, I'll probably be a customer for life.
