I had planted about a hundred radishes (both 'Early Scarlet Globe' and 'Champion'), and now I'm down to sixty or seventy. Why, you ask? My cat, Honey, decided my radish pots were awesome play areas. She dug in them twice. The first time wasn't so bad; she only killed maybe four or five. Did I learn my lesson? Of course not. I made myself believe she wouldn't do it again (I was just too lazy to put up fencing). The second time around, she killed all but three in my pots. She hasn't gotten to the raised beds yet (where most of my radishes are), so I still have those ones. But the ones in the ground-pots (pots with empty bottoms so that the roots can extend into the earth) are pretty much all killed.
So I instead planted leeks—just came in from doing that—in the ground-pots. And now I have tomato cages around them. Try to get into those, Honey. Yeah, no more digging in my pots for her.
Eight of my 'Crenshaw' cantaloupes have also sprouted, and I got those into small containers. I'm going to be growing them in 15 gallon pots, because containers actually work for Cantaloupe cultivars. Bigger melons won't survive in pots.
One of the nine 'Sugar Baby' watermelon seeds I started has also sprouted. That one is a smaller melon, so they can be done in containers as well, but I'm going to try this one in the ground; 15 gal pots can get expensive. It's just fencing that's one big problem right now. We're working on it.
I'm hoping to get some big melons this year, but it's not likely with all the grasshoppers we have (another big problem). The property is overrun with the worst species of grasshoppers in the US (yes, Minnesota and SD have the worst hoppers in the country).
Anyway, the deer and rabbits don't bother the radishes, so I didn't think that I'd have to set up cages for them. Imagine my surprise when it wasn't even the wild animals who I had to watch out for, but my own cat. 
Until next time,
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