On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 10:08:27 -0500, "Pat"
wrote:

I didn't expect it, but I had outstanding success with my sweet corn crop
this year, in spite of the cats using the shady spaces between the plants as
a playground and nap hangout in the summer heat. The plants are 10' high and
bearing 3-4 ears per stalk!!!

When I was a teenager, we had a garden for three years or so. Early
in the first summer, we kept finding the corn stalks chewed off at the
base, and blamed the damage on rabbits. So, we encouraged our cat to
spend time back in the garden to keep the rabbits away. Three weeks
later, with most of the corn stalks destroyed, we caught the villain
in the act: the cat herself. Rather than munching on ordinary grass,
she was chewing down the corn stalks, which were still soft enough at
that stage for this to be possible. We ended up having to erect a
chicken-wire fence around the patch of corn in order to have any left.
She didn't do this in subsequent years, however.

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