As we enter into the month of August, the summer garden is showing signs of stress from a week of heavy rains following a month of neglect. My job required so many man hours during the month of July, that the poor garden was fortunate to get watered occasionally. Still, it produced an abundance of tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, green peppers, okra and green beans. It’s still producing, but the squash are in pretty bad shape.
On top of that, the deer attacked last night. They stomped down fencing to get in. They chomped the leaves off most of the okra, munched on green beans, ate tomatoes and peppers, and stomped down the squash and watermelons. We unloaded and installed more wooden pallets – our cattlegaps. The pallets seem to be working, but it’s taking a while to collect enough to totally surround the garden. We’ve even used a few old windows. In addition to the pallets, we’ve hung plastic bags around the garden – a tip from my son-in-law’s grandmother. We also have deer netting put up as a fence around the areas that don’t have pallets. The plan is to eventually paint the pallets green to blend in with the grass.
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- Summer Bounty
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- Hands off!
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- Lemon Cucumbers
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- Herb Garden Site
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- Garden Mess
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- Deer attack orka
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- Deer Watermelons
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- Deer Prints
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- Makeshift Cattlegap