On 2025-03-07, Snag  wrote:   
      
   >    So far I've got lettuce and bok choi seedlings peeping up thru the   
   > soil . I've also got carrots in a tray and peppers and tomatoes in 4"   
   > pots but I don't expect to see any action there for a few more days .   
      
   i need to fortify my woodchuck defense before growing greens,   
   cauliflower, broccoli, etc, again. last year i got the seeds in   
   very early and had beautiful looking plants growing. previously   
   i had started them too late and they bolted from the heat. last   
   year, the woodchuck got through the fence around the raised beds   
   and had itself quite the feast leaving me with mostly plant   
   stumps.   
      
   this spring i'm going to rototill a trench right next to the   
   fence all the way around a foot deep and as wide as the tiller   
   tines, about 2 feet, and bury galvanized expanded metal   
   vertically and horizontally along the fence in the trench.   
   which reminds me. i need to source the expanded metal and get   
   my oxy-acetylene tanks filled. welding for gardening? would that   
   make it heavy metal gardening? :P   
      
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