As the summer draws to a close, I won't be blogging much more about my gardening/flower woes. But here's one more before the season's up.  I have a pot of flowers that sit on fiance Thom's bottom step in front of the house.  Lately, I've noticed when I come over, there's dirt from the pot spilled out onto the step below.  At first, I was quick to blame the rabbits. They've been such a nuisance, but haven't been nibbling as much as they were in weeks past.  I also saw a hole dug in my potted tomoato plant.  That sits pretty high off the ground, so I was wondering how a rabbit could get in and dig it up so much. I've just been putting the dirt back in the pot, only to see it pushed back out the next time I look. 

It wasn't until this past weekend when I was watching all the squirrels in the neighborhood, with their cheeks puffed-out with food, that I thought maybe they were the culprits.  Is it possible they're digging holes in my flower pots, only to bury their nuts for the winter? When talking with my friend, Jenni, she thought that was not the case. She figured they'd be smarter than that, and just bury their food in the ground. But when I asked Nancy Naeve Brown about it, she immediately said, "Yes, it's the squirrels!" In fact, she says squirrels will try to bury their food just about anywhere this time of year.

I haven't actually felt around to see if there's an acorn buried in one of my plants. I hope the squirrels just dug the holes and have yet to fill them. But if they do, they'll be in for a sorry surprise come winter-time.  It'll be pretty hard to find those nuts back when the pots are packed away in the garage.