Critter Control – Vegetable Gardening
In my earlier post, I mentioned how I was growing some organic vegetables.
Unfortunately, I'm having trouble keeping the deer away. They are eating the young plants. The zucchini is doing well, though. For some reason, the deer don't find zucchini too appealing. :-)
I am really starting to sympathize with farmers who deal with pests on an everyday basis.
A friend of mine told me that placing human hair around the plants should keep the deer away. So, it looks like I will be buying deer netting or putting uncolored (non-chemically treated) hair around the plants. I'm going to try the hair trick first. If that doesn't work, then I guess I won't have home-grown vegetables this year.
In other news – I've been dealing with some spammers (RSS/Feedburner, and of course the usual blog comment spam, most of which Akismet catches). So, if you see anything odd coming from this blog, now you know why. It seems spam is becoming more of a problem online.
Local Produce – I've been eating some great produce from the CSA that I belong to. Last week, I received some excellent (but very small!) watermelons. I've included a photo below. These are the some of the smallest watermelons I have seen (they tasted great, though).
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Hi :)
That's too bad about the deer…I hope the hair trick works. I commend you for attempting to grow your own food….I long to do that someday. I see that you're into Raw food and thought I'd pass along my blog to you (I have a couple of great recipes posted on there). I'm loving your blog and can't wait to read more! I think I'll be on here for at least an hour or two ;)
Have a terrific day!
Kristen Suzanne
Thanks for the kind comments, Kristen. I hope the hair trick works too. I am totally new to growing food, so it will be interesting to see what happens.
Perhaps small watermelons are the hallmark of CSAs….. I got a little baby watermelon (maybe even smaller than yours), too. Mine turned out to be yellow inside. Hmn.
Yes, I've had some yellowish-white watermelons too. Luckily, this has only happened once or twice. Most are reddish-pink.
It's great to see people starting to grow their own organic vegetables and talking about it, well done.
They might be smaller than what people consider standard but the taste is huge compared to the "standard" as well..
Enjoy :)
Jenelle
I have a garden that I grow every year. Those pesky animals seem to get something different every year. This year they ate all my cantaloupe. I believe my problem was gophers though.
There is some stuff you can buy that you sprinkle around your garden, not in your garden or on your plants just around it, that the animals do not like and tends to keep them away, until it rains anyway. The rain must wash it away of something.
I have also heard that if you grow peppers you can chop them up and dry them and put them around your plants the animals are eating. I never tried it but it makes perfect sense. I grow peppers and I have never had any animal touch them.
The outside growing season is over for me this year. Good luck to you next year.
Laura