Rocky the Raccoon

Drama on the Noe Farm!! Is this the face of our enemy?

 

This morning, on our way out the door to work, we were startled to find that 4 basil plants, in 2 separate locations across the yard from one another, had been uprooted. Not eaten, not even really damaged, but just pulled out of the yard. The Twittersphere was quick to answer our quest for an answer as to "what would do this?!" Thanks to our friends at noevalleysf.blogspot.com for sending over some information about the potential culprit: raccoons! 

We obviously don't want to do anything that would, you know, result in dead mammals in our yard. So we're going to start with some cayenne pepper (a recommendation in the article linked above) and keep a close watch over this garden of ours. Tomorrow, in anticipation of my birthday weekend, I'm going to work from home. I hope I don't have a face-to-face encounter with a feisty, basil-loving raccoon.