Garden 2009

FOOD!!!

But that's the only thing that got picked, the jalapeno

Grean beenses
Cherry tomatoes
Rogue corn stalk

I got up and went outside to check on my cats. They were looking down the hill at something, I figured it was a dog. Nope, it was a deer just in the woods off the front yard. It walked down the hill, across the bottom of the lot towards the back, back up the hill and walked up to my garden. Walked between the barbed wire and to the bean plants. So I gently talked to it and slooooowly walked towards it and it hopped the fence and walked through my neighbors back yard and into the woods behind their lot. Turf wars!!!

The moth balls are about melted but I have another box, I'll put that out. The deer only ate the leaves off the top of one plant before it hopped the fence.

Corn getting ready to tassle
Bean plant top that got ate last nite
Wild watermelon
Oblong watermelon
Zuke!
Bell pepper

Tall Corn ^^^ Those taller stalks are over 6' tall



Wild watermelon, might be a candidate for eating! It's just bigger than a baseball.



Oblong watermelon



More oblong watermelon



Don't you just love how fast squash grows?



Cantaloupe

Corn, 3 days difference




Wild watermelon from baseball to softball size in 3 days




Cantaloupe




Zucchini



Standing in the corn. the camera is about 5'8" up, my eye level Tall corn! Now if it'd start earing

You've got a jungle growing!



Yum!!!

yeah.. that jungle ain't gonna last long if the deer don't stay out.. they done topped off all the bean plants and snatched a few leaves off the zucchini

Them pesky deer are back?? Drat!

Ya know, I bought a different brand of cantaloupe this year.. but seeing this stuff here, methinks they slipped a cucumber seed in mine I guess I'll cut one open and see

Yeah, I was wondering about that. Odd shape and color for a cantaloupe. Curious minds want to know!

Yep, it's cucumber!

I cut one off the vine this morning and chopped an end off and took a whiff. I just never thought different of it because I bought new type stuff this year, sposed to be giant cantaloupe

I do have one cantaloupe growing on a vine though.

The honey bees are busy with my corn pollen, they're loading up!

How's your garden growing? Did the deer go away?

Well, I got a few corn, some cherry tomatoes, squash, zucchini and there's a cantaloupe still growing...

The deer got the beans, cherry tomatoes, a couple cantaloupe and zucchini.

the watermelon was a bust period.

I think I'll try the heavy fertilizer next year, forgot to this year I keep forgetting nothing grows in this clay

I bet those were some happy deer! heh.

They woulda ate the whole garden if they had been preggers, like last year