I have not written in a while here on any of my blogs. I have been busy with many other things and switching computers because somebody decided to jump on my keyboard for my desktop and broke it Sidney is a big cat.
I can't share much with you about my gardens because it has been terribly dry this whole Summer and everything up and died. That and the tamed deer that I named Maverick came around and ate anything that he could find. Most deer will not touch anything that is even the slightest bit prickly, like squash vine. That didn't both him though and he ate all the leave off my plants. I had a good number of them growing because we get those vine borers and thought the more the better. Not when Maverick came around. I got one squash from all 9 plants. He even liked my roses.
I didn't get any cucumbers and the beans didn't do all that well this year either. I did get a gallon sized bag of them to freeze, but that didn't last long. I love beans and put them in lots of dishes or we eat them as a side dish. I like to eat them cooked up in butter...all by themselves and as a meal instead of a side dish. How about you?
Our lettuce and spinach didn't last all that long either because it got hot too fast and rained so much early summer. The rain drowned a good many of our seeds that we planted. It was just a not a good year to grow anything.
Here on the west side of our mountain you cannot ever predict what the weather will be from one year to the next. It is not like in the valley where you get abundant sunshine and rain and pretty much the same every year. I also live in a forest and try as I might it is hard to plant the right vegetables at the right time and then if I do get that then we have the onslaught of insects and now the deer. My deer chasers don't work on Maverick. He puts his nose right in them and gives them a good smell. Wild deer won't come near them.
Well that is all I can say about our gardens for this year. Hoping next year is better.
