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Ruh-roh...
A few plants went in the ground on Mother's Day three days ago, even though it's a bit too cold this week for them to properly thrive. Mostly I needed to cling to some sense of normalcy. All the tomatoes, the two jalapenos, and two of the squash plants. I wasn't sure the third would even fit in the spot for them anyway, squash plants get enormous.
Monday morning, I saw that something had eaten the top off of one of my heirloom tomato plants, and I don't have any more seeds for those things to grow more, so I really hope it can recover and grow from a sucker offshoot or something. But topping a plant is generally a great way to stunt its growth. I was worried about groundhogs but eh, it was still chilly, wasn't gonna do anything just yet about it.
This morning, I check on the plants and there are deer hoofprints in the squash bed. This is bad because I'm in no way set up to protect things from deer. They haven't been much of a problem in the past, but with the renovations done to our front yard, we don't have a wall of hedges or a wooden fence anymore, plus there's a pond with waterfall that probably sounds super interesting. And we live across from a major park, so they're just hopping across the street to come check out my garden. I'm gonna have to order some deer repellent and hope it gets them out of the habit. This isn't the first time they've snacked up here (the tomato top was probably eaten by deer, in hindsight). I lost a whole crop of grapes to a deer last year, which was after the hedges were removed and while the door to the fence was being left propped open.
I contacted the seller for the ghost pepper seeds and he's sending me fresh ones, in theory. It was all of about $3 so if I never get them, eh, w/e, but I was looking forward to super-hots this year. (Might have been the one thing the damned deer didn't eat.) I also ordered additional carrots since it looked like something (chipmunk? Squirrel?) had been digging through the carrot planting and I wasn't positive it'd come up, but it looks like tiny little whispery threads are coming up after all. I'll give it another week and then put the additional carrot seeds down to fill in where there are any gaps.
This coming weekend is supposed to be in the 70's, so I'll do my big tilling and planting then. More peas and beans, not quite time for the corn, the tomatillos, zucchini, cucamelon... I'll have to organize this week and figure out when things are supposed to go in.
Monday morning, I saw that something had eaten the top off of one of my heirloom tomato plants, and I don't have any more seeds for those things to grow more, so I really hope it can recover and grow from a sucker offshoot or something. But topping a plant is generally a great way to stunt its growth. I was worried about groundhogs but eh, it was still chilly, wasn't gonna do anything just yet about it.
This morning, I check on the plants and there are deer hoofprints in the squash bed. This is bad because I'm in no way set up to protect things from deer. They haven't been much of a problem in the past, but with the renovations done to our front yard, we don't have a wall of hedges or a wooden fence anymore, plus there's a pond with waterfall that probably sounds super interesting. And we live across from a major park, so they're just hopping across the street to come check out my garden. I'm gonna have to order some deer repellent and hope it gets them out of the habit. This isn't the first time they've snacked up here (the tomato top was probably eaten by deer, in hindsight). I lost a whole crop of grapes to a deer last year, which was after the hedges were removed and while the door to the fence was being left propped open.
I contacted the seller for the ghost pepper seeds and he's sending me fresh ones, in theory. It was all of about $3 so if I never get them, eh, w/e, but I was looking forward to super-hots this year. (Might have been the one thing the damned deer didn't eat.) I also ordered additional carrots since it looked like something (chipmunk? Squirrel?) had been digging through the carrot planting and I wasn't positive it'd come up, but it looks like tiny little whispery threads are coming up after all. I'll give it another week and then put the additional carrot seeds down to fill in where there are any gaps.
This coming weekend is supposed to be in the 70's, so I'll do my big tilling and planting then. More peas and beans, not quite time for the corn, the tomatillos, zucchini, cucamelon... I'll have to organize this week and figure out when things are supposed to go in.