Sometimes you just have to start over. So the bed striped of leftover stalks, added composted sheep manure and a bag of topsoil to add higher level. Then planted few of the zucchini and yellow squash; Soliel Beans, carrots, parsnips, salad and cucumbers. Also seeded few broccoli and cauliflower but not sure if the direct-sow in beds will work out or not. Time will tell.
On a more positive note, new berries came into play! First my poor yellow raspberry finally gave us whole 2 berries to try. Deer have been stripping it down each year and this year it grew into the main garden and one stalk survived. So there is hope for the future.
Black raspberries coming to an end and groundhog is actively helping me pick them out from lower branches. He also apparently loving new berries that are just starting to ripen and keeps getting to them faster than I can get them picked.
In the community garden, zucchini are coming faster than I can get them organized, which makes my coworkers and food pantry very happy. I also have plenty of beans, first peppers and cucumbers and a nice head of broccoli.
At home few beans still alive and enough to feed me and my hubby. Hopefully newly planted will grow well. I also seeded few beans couple of weeks ago at the CSA farm where I help out so I should have them in waves. And at home my pretty orchid opened up - isn't it lovely? So pristine white and delicate.
So there you have it. You win some, you lose some. And you move on.
Are there plans for a major fence deterrent too?
ReplyDeleteGood luck with the redo.
Yes, my hubby will be building cages for all berries - blackberries, raspberries and blueberries as he finally got tired of not having enough when deer eat it all.
DeleteThose raspberries look so good as do all the other goodies you have harvested. I really wish I had planted some broccoli in the spring. Beautiful orchid!
ReplyDeleteI really wish I took two plots at the community instead of one!
DeleteThat is a very nice head of broccoli. I hope your new plantings work out better than your first ones.
ReplyDeleteThanks, I hope so too
DeleteYou are doing well despite the challenges. It's nice to know we live amid the wildlife, just wish they would observe the bounds of decency and leave the raspberries alone!! There are plenty of rhododendrons and hostas to chew up first.
ReplyDeleteWhat puzzles me is that they never touch wild raspberries - which grow prolific in my back yard, but any "cultivated" are eaten down to nothing as soon as they start growing in spring. Do they have a homing beacon of some kind that this is 'good" and come and taste it?
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