It’s so beautiful out today. I love this property, with all the trees waving in the wind and the two fawns that have taken up residence (I think their mom might have died in a car crash). Poor babies are eating all the red tomatoes and yellow roses. They do not like the pink roses. Pink must taste bad. They wait for the tomatoes to turn red. Actually, not just turn red but be soft and ripe. It is now a game of wits between us to see who gets the tomato at the proper maturity. They won the other night and got the three I planned on picking the next morning.
This morning I opened the door to let irritating Chihuahua out and a rabbit was sitting in front of the door munching the grass. Probably the same rabbit who is eating the blooms on my melons. I do think mother nature is winning this year. Between the late blooms, due to cool weather, and the animals, I’m not sure what we are getting out of the garden other than peppers. Anyway, the rabbit would NOT move. Just refused. I knew the Chihuahua would take out after the rabbit and I wanted the rabbit to have a chance and also not to beat the tar out of the dog, so I said “shoe.” The rabbit munched away. I knocked on the inside of the door. The rabbit munched away. The dog actually went back in the house (we were on the porch) and laid back down and the dumb rabbit was still munching away. I think my wildlife has gotten tame.
I have two gardens this year. I planted vegetables in the very sparse rose garden, where a bunch of roses came up in the beginning but didn’t do much with the cool weather. I took care of them this year too. But, I have two new plants that are doing great. One is a yellow rose and one is varigated and I just love it. Will post a picture later. The vegetables were doing great too, before the orphans took up residence.
And, then we have the square foot back garden and the pumpkin patch that is invading our yard. These are some of the numerous blossoms.
I was too busy to do much with my garden this year, but fortunately my 10 year old daughter was able to make something of it. Well, at least is better than nothing. Yours sounds great.
We got ours in late this year, which wouldn’t normally have mattered, but it has been so cool in Indiana (4 days of 90 degree weather all summer) and things just aren’t growing. We are doing well on the wildlife front though and they are fun to watch. I wish I could get a picture of our orphan twin fawns. They are really pretty right now, even if they are eating everything.