Weather reporting is THE most thankless of all jobs.
Not supposed to get so cold last night, but I kept things protected as well as possible. Still, my sweet pepper season is over. Hot peppers look fine, though. Another week on those, maybe.
I stripped all the sweet peppers this morning. I will pull out the plants this weekend and put the bed to rest for the winter.
Now an item that probably should go into the "Bitch" thread, but continuing with this context.
I was watching twelve huge peppers, almost fully ripe and over night the raccoons got to them and they are half eaten all over my back yard.
I do not want to just kill everything and have no wildlife living near me, but we have too many destructive pests, here. The abundance of raccoons living in our neighborhood has been a problem for several years. I am not the only one to notice.
The county Co-Op will bring "Have a Heart" traps and relocate them for a small fee. I intend to appeal to our Neighborhood Watch folks and see if anyone else is willing to chip in a few bucks to slow down this destruction.
One guy down the street keeps chickens for egg laying and twice this summer he has had to rebuild his coops due to raccoons marauding for eggs. Pretty sure he will go with me on this.
