*$%^*#!@ whistle pigs!

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1. Sometimes I feel like my garden is the local wildlife cafe

The squirrels and racoons strip the avocado tree, the jays get the sour cherries. Luckily our western pocket gophers are mouse-sized, so the cat earns his keep by sleeping in the garden and annoying them (hasn't caught any, but the gopher population is down.

I don't even try cabbage anymore, after the one year I grew a picture-perfect Savoy cabbage that the racoons ate the center out of the night before I planned to harvest it. They won't touch the zucchini, though.