City Gardening or Where the Wild Things Are

Opposoms and Raccoons probably were always here from the time these gardens were fields and forests. Now we have a goundhog or a gopher, I'm thinking now that it's a gopher. I went to the garden this morning camera and hot sauce in hand. I approached the bench with an arm full of turnips when I saw the little critter out of the corner of my eye. It was in the Chris plot, ready to finish off the lettuce it only half ate yesterday. It didn't mind the water spraying at the end of the plot ( I like to give the plots a good soaking) but when I approached with camera in hand it scooted away. It went under Kirks fence heading toward Bruce's yard. It likes lettuce but didn't touch the arugula or radicchio. In one case the lettuce was in the middle of a bunch of arugula. We're looking into borrowing a trap to transport it to the park.

Where did it come from? Suddenly. This isn't Bucks County or Chestnut Hill. Fairmont Park is several miles of city streets away. Yet, here it is. In the Wilds of West Philly.