Kodiak of late has had an incredible run of weather - sunny hot day after sunny hot day. It seems every morning there has been a colorful sunrise to enjoy. I have also noticed that the sun rises a bit more to the right each day, and that yesterday, for the first time this Fall, it rose up from behind land at the tip of Spruce Cape rather than directly out of the ocean. So despite the warm, clear and sunny days, it is Fall. My Mill Bay/Spruce Cape seasonal sundial tells me so!
In the last week I also started to harvest the potatoes and finished harvesting the garlic. I discovered that rats and slugs had devastated the potato patch. Lots of tunnels and chewed potatoes - and once chewed often 'goo'ed' and finished off by slugs. YUCK! In the first couple of rows that I harvested I had lost most of the potatoes. I decided that I had probably better harvest them all before it got worse.
The second day of harvesting went far, far better - barely any rat or slug loss. So it looks like the damage was fairly localized. The wheelbarrow in the bottom photo shows about 1/3 of the potato crop. I have since filled the wheelbarrow to the top, and estimate I still have enough left to harvest to fill an additional 2 five gallon buckets. So phewwwww and fingers crossed I still have a decent crop of potatoes. Patrick
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