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    Mid-summer garden update

    July 11, 2010 - By 

    So I’ve had great success with growth of our plants….but we’ve also had some pest issues. Such as DEER!!!
    Whitetail deer are beautiful creatures and can be quite yummy when prepared properly. 🙂
    All that aside…they are eating my plants!!! My hostas are down to nubs in the front and the buggers ate over a dozen green tomatoes right off the plants.

    The garden is right outside the backdoor…like 2 steps from the backdoor…with a motion sensor light. Seriously…they are not scared!

    The herbs and lettuce are above their reach with the rock landscaping below…thank goodness. The flat leaf parley is going crazy!!

    Check out my spider plant appendage. It’s different from anything I’ve ever seen a spider plant send out before. The only thing I can figure is that I’ve never had one outside before.

    The plants I’m going to over-winter in the house are going to be in for a bit of a shock!

    I was thinking today that I’m going to have to make quite a bit of room. I have 2 miniature roses, a hydrangea,  3 pots of herbs, a gerbera daisy and the crazy spider plant to bring in.  That would be in addition to the other 7 plants that already reside in our house.

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    Pesky deer

    June 24, 2010 - By 

    Not too long ago I snapped a picture of a deer that had just wandered out of our backyard.
    I had commented on how skinny I thought she was.
    Well, she seems to be working on fattening herself up a bit by eating my flowers!!!

    She ate the top and one whole side of my strawberry jar of petunias as well as half the leaves off my hostas. I saw her bed in the grass yesterday just outside the landscape rocks. She could just lay there and munch away on a hosta.

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    Garden beauty

    June 21, 2010 - By 

    Before my garage sale I made some flags from scraps to put up by the street so people would know the sale was here. As it turned out, we had so much stuff the flags weren’t needed. They’ve sat on my sewing machine case until today. I decided to pretty up the garden a bit.

    Incidentally…the garden is doing very well. I have green tomatoes on all the plants and a couple yellow pepper on one plant. I’ve been harvesting herbs nearly daily. The lettuce is looking pretty poor but I’m going to try and let it dry out a little more. I think it’s not well enough drained.

    I picked up a small stoneware pitcher from a garage sale last week. The lady didn’t want to bargain much with me because she said it was made by a famous MN potter named Robert Briscoe. I’d never heard of him but looked it up when I got home. I paid $5 for it…she said she paid over $30.
    Last evening, I went around the yard and picked a pretty bouquet for my new pitcher.