hellaD's Blog

Well the deer or maybe it is the groundhog have been in the garden again.  This time they decided to eat some of the tomato bushes.  Luckily I have such a lot it didn't really matter, but it is sad to see them eaten when they have spent so much energy growing to that point.  I think the deer like the flowers.  They left everything else alone.  I have been trying to get the milkweed that stands guard to tell the animals to stay out, they have plenty to eat elsewhere.

 So I had to resort to some stinky spray.  Luckily I had some fermenting.  I had made a spray of tomato leaves and chili oil earlier and forgotten about it.  Boy was it stinky, the smell wouldn't come off my hand for hours, uggg.  Hopefully it will do the trick.  I haven't been able to afford to fence the garden in the whole way round and from what I have heard, when deer want in nothing will stop them, so I am trying to work out some other arrangement with them.

Also I saw that my first spaghetti squash was growing.  That vine sprang up out of the compost heap along with some passionfruit vines which came from some fruits from New Zealand.  I hope they can grow big enough before the winter somehow!

HellaD