Baby Garden Assassins

Spring is usually the exciting time for baby animals, but this year it is the summer. Yes, we have babies in the summer this year and it is a delight for our summer campers! What we have is baby garden assassins.

We just hatched two ducks to our brood. So now we have new assassins to add to our flock of pest assassins. Now I need a better net to protect the pond from greedy ducks who want to eat all the koi fish fry.

Why We Keep Ducks

No sane or reasonable person would keep ducks. They are loud, messy, and petulant. But they have one very important talent: They are intensely stubborn.

This stubborn streak comes in very handy in our gardens and our potager gardens. Ducks love to eat ticks and squash bugs. This is useful to. farmer, but not to a pond.

The pond lives at the mercy of the ducks. When the ducks get into the pond there is chaos. But in the gardens they are heroes.

We have no ticks and as long as we can keep their fat waddling bodies out of the vegetable gardens, we are good. They have long necks and great eyesight, so they get every squash bug, they don’t eat vegetables. it’s the chickens that are assassins in the garden…