We have a fence around our garden. I built it to prevent the deer from eating the produce that we grow. One time before I built the fence, the local paper came out and there on the front page was a black and white photograph of our garden showing a pair of deer standing there, munching away and having a feast of our vegetables. I have even done a painting called “Damn Deer” showing what was left of a cabbage that the deer had eaten.
While I always think of the fence keeping the deer out, I recently realized that it keeps other vegetable stealing predators out also.
A week ago I went into the garden to do some weeding. I left the gate open as I got busy pulling up the biomass of weeds that were growing among our veggies. I wasn’t paying much attention to anything else, so I hadn’t noticed that Kona had also come into the garden.
When my bucket was full of weeds, I got up to take them over to dump in the compost pile, and that’s when I saw Kona.
She was busily helping herself to the peas. She was laying on the ground on top of some of the pea plants she had torn down, busily crunching away at the tasty pea pods she had ripped from the plants. We have never had a dog that loved vegetables so much.
Luckily, we have a bumper crop of peas this year, so I can be generous to Kona. A couple of days ago I picked a bucket and a half of peas, and there will be several more pickings to go before the crop is over. As I was out there picking the peas, Kona sat patiently nearby with her sad eyes on me, silently begging. Since she was acting so well-behaved, I periodically threw her some pea pods to crunch on, rewarding her for patiently waiting, rather than just helping herself to the peas.
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