we also have gophers that will devastate a garden overnight. One learns to be humble and appreciate what farmers can do for these hundreds of years...

A few years back I had a rabbit addicted to my cayenne pepper. Won't touch any of the other 30 pepper plants, only the cayenne. The rabbits certainly like asparagus, and I have some trouble with sweet corn when they're young. I figured they'd attack my Brassicas but never did.

Anne, if those 100 old milk crates are the metal ones you may have thousands of dollars sitting outside. They sell very well on EBAY for between $20 and $80 depending on the dairy they came from with people paying more for shipping than the price of the crate.

I sold two for $25 each at a garage sale last fall, and used ebay's "items sold" prices to price my crates.

Unfortunately I only have 8 or 9 of those metal milk crates, most of them are the heavy duty plastic. I'll sure watch for the metal ones, though, thanks for the heads up!

Annie

how are they coming along?

Unfortunately not good (Cercis). Several seeds had "floated" to the soil surface due to heavy spring rains. No evidence of germination, although they did at least appear to be viable. I'll leave them as they are until spring 2025.

Camassia have not continued to grow beyond about 1.5" in the pots, so I guess I'll plant them out, see what happens.

I have 2 mature kumquat trees. There are a lot of work. I got 1 quart of Meiwa fruit this spring. I planted the seeds to see what would happen and I found out that they were still just as dificultto grow as they were 12 years ago. While the figs grow much faster they have just as much problems to. It is a hobby that will never brake even on in fruit production. Just fun.