got some squash and cucumbers. That little rain really help things along. I miss the big garden, but it sure is easier to keep the small one weeded.
50# of sunflower seed wasted to the deer and now they are after all the ornamental gourds and pumpkins I broadcasted. I guess they gotta eat too.
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My squash are doing fine this year too. I’ve never had an issue with the deer eating the pumpkins, but they love love love the new growth watermelons and the fruit themselves. They’ll ruin a perfectly good watermelon with a hoof print right to the middle of it.
Any time I plant sunflowers, I plant enough that they can’t eat them all. They’ll get about half of the tops nipped off, but the other half will still come in fine.
Tough place to grow anything! Just finished putting 3’ chicken wire around new planted small trees ugly as crap but either squirrels will dig around them or deer will destroy them. Got a mini rose bush and just saw a bloom develop started looking like it was going to open but it got eaten by a budworm. Had to look that up never heard of them.
Fella by dawhoo put an electric fence around his garden next morning he found the solar operated system in the marsh and figured a deer got hung up in it, he put up cameras and caught coons eating all his sweet corn and watermelons. He’s growing peppers now says so far nothing likes them.
I’m glad for King’s Market
Nothing works like a couple of common yard dogs and a semi feral cat hanging around a yard garden to keep most critters away.
Might get another dog one day after my last yellow lab it’s just too hard on me when they pass
Do have a feral cat visiting
Cucumbers are just starting. Trying okra this year too. We will see how that plays out.
Planted watermelon and pumpkins today. Probably early on the pumpkins but they didn’t reach a good size last year, so trying it about 3 weeks earlier this season.
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Them some nice looking veggies
How you keep from sharing with critters?
I think Ricky has trained squirrels guarding them in exchange for some kickbacks
Growing these among my onions and garlic, seem to do really well that way. Didn’t realize I needed to start regularly thinning, roasted baby carrots with the venison steak tonight
Probably my best year ever for cucumbers. I think they really have enjoyed this cool spring. Wind knocked my sunflowers down a bit. At least this fenced in batch survived. Saved seed going on 10 years. I wish my deer were like Ricky’s and didn’t like pumpkins. I do ornamentals Every year for the wife. This is my worst luck to date with deer. second planting. What makes it now is what she gets. Teach her to not let me shoot deer around the house! I’ve even put out deer repellant and perfume.
Oh my wife would fight you for them.
Gee 23 that looks really good.
they came back and finished off the ornamental gourds Looking at a sonic / flashy light alarm thing to put out from amazon.
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This has to be the absolute best spring I’ve had for squash and cucumbers. By now the sun has usually baked them. Haven’t cut on the sprinkler once. Wife has been blanshing the squash and freezing it. Cucumbers not much we know to preserve them other than pickles. By now the collards usually start getting that funky taste from too much sun, but they are still good.
Wife and I have just been laughing at the blueberries. They are/ where loaded but as they ripen the multitude of wild birds have been doing a number on them. Even my resident Mocking Birds can’t keep em away.
My Little Bush is doing pretty good.
Last night the wife said she was going to put a net over it today.
My guard birds are Blue Jays. I go out and whistle for the squirrels they come running for peanuts. The birds have figured it out also. Blue Jays will run everybody off including the squirrels. They get four or five peanuts they’re happy and go sit in the tree. Then everybody else can come eat.
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Did you get to eat some? We got a few, the birds are getting them before they even get ripe. Still a few left.
