We planted several test plots of various varieties of corn in this year's veggie gardens. Raccoons visited last night and broke several stalks of one variety, weeks before any ears had even begun.
Then today the lunatic fringe of New Hampshire's tornado system swept through, shoving much of the corn flat to the ground.What interested me was that the plots in which I had interplanted dwarf peas and bush beans, the corn stayed happy and tall. None were damaged in the big winds.
So in the morning we'll see how much we can reset and hill with even more compost, and which are needing to be removed and planted to something else. I did spray all of the corn with repellent, and sprinkled a different repellent in granular form on and around the corn patches. We'll need to take further action with the critters, but I'm hoping it will buy us a little time to do so.