What a disappointing sight to see this morning!
More tulip flower buds and leaves have been eaten, even with the efforts we made last night to deter the deer.
It might not be deer.
Or maybe not “just” deer.
You can see it a bit in the photo; something has been digging in the leaf mulch. It looks like skunks were digging for grubs.
It turns out skunks eat tulips. too.
I am thinking of setting up one of the trail cams over the area. Meanwhile, I think the roll of wire fence that I intended to use on the squash arch is going to be pressed into tulip protection duty.
I just hope the bulbs have enough energy left in them to grow more leaves and survive this.
The Re-Farmer
The Re-Farmer 
Thinking about it, I’d have to agree it might not be deer. There’s only been a few tulips eaten each time for starters. Any decent sized deer would have wiped out all of them (or at least more of them). Even more true if there was more than one. None of the other greenery around them was touched either.
I remember way back in the day when my grandfather was trying to keep the wildlife out of his garden, the smaller plants like that he made row cages for. 3 foot chicken wire fences all around and then he put chicken wire over the top too.
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I think cages like that is what we will need to do!!
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It can be a little pricey, but it’s better than having your crops eaten. IIRC when my grandfather did strawberries this way, he didn’t even use wire, just rolls of plastic netting designed to keep birds off of plants.
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We have mosquito netting on the way to test on our beets. I’ve read that smaller birds can get caught in the bird netting.
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Good point, although I’m sure the cats wouldn’t complain about an easy snack O_O 😀
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