The Battle Continues

These guys are still eating my lettuce.  I think my problem with the coffee grounds and egg shells is that I don't have *enough* of a barrier.  So for next year, I might try to make a more fortified perimeter around the garden.  Until then, I'm trying a homemade pepper spray on the lettuce (boil a hot pepper and a bunch of chopped garlic and let it set overnight.  Strain and put in a spray bottle.  Boom) so we'll see if they stop making swiss cheese out of my lettuce! :o) 

Jesse laughs at me, though, cause I'm actually not too worried about it.  We have an abundance of lettuce :o)  So I'm okay with *sharing* some, I guess.  Also, I've embraced the three mole hills in the garden, because they aren't doing any harm (that I can tell) and I don't have the energy or time to try to capture or kill them. 

Oh, and I also don't weed.  I'm trying to remember it's okay to be a lazy gardener when you're also gardening children :o) 

Speaking of gardens, my upstairs neighbor gave us big hand fulls of tomatoes from his!  I call them our "upstairs neighbor" (have I mentioned this before?  Can't remember, so onward I plunge) because their house is above ours (accessed by another road) and our backyards border each other.  But since they're kind of above us on the hill, I call them "upstairs neighbors" :o)  Anyways, this guy (and his wife) are so nice, but unfortunately all we can do is smile and wave at each other till I learn some more German!