I’m Getting tired of constantly fighting pests? Gardening doesn’t feel fun anymore

[lengoyeko]

For years, I’ve had to fight every countless varieties of insects, fungus, and hoards of destructive squirrels in my garden. For a few weeks now, I’ve been fighting what I assume are Voles digging tunnels all throughout my beds.

Idk, gardening just doesn’t feel fun for me anymore. I spend so much time and research making sure things are right in my garden, and I love taking care of plants + soil. But I reallllllly don’t want to have to come out every single day to make sure some stupid rodent didn’t dig up my entire vegetable bed, purely for ****s and giggles (they rarely ever bury anything). I already have put river rocks around all my new transplants so squirrels won’t rip them right out of the ground. Let alone the voles that are now digging tunnels DIRECTLY below my plants. Idk man, I may just let this year’s harvest go.

 

[Dirtmechanic]

You probably need to import some tortoises. Torti? What is plural for a hardshell anyway? You are obviously a devoted gardener. Pets that eat pests and help water cannot hurt you. I have a Dutch Shephard that is better at catching rodents than my cats. A chicken? They eat meat and bugs. Just two maybe?

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