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Your eyes are better than mine, I still can't make out any resemblance to a fawn. I'll take your word on it.
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The spot where the compost pile had been, has a bunch of volunteer squash. A bunch look like zucchini but two are twisty curly like a pumpkin. I've been hand watering them every couple of days and today I found a zucchini!
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Saturday the deer got ONTO the porch and chomped the sweet potato starts. All of them except 2. They left maybe 3-4 inches of the stems, and one had several feet of stem left but no leaves.
Finally got the raised bed they were supposed to go filled and I'm putting the starts in and watering the heck out of them. Hopefully they come back..
Checked the volunteer zucchini, there's maybe 6 growing now, might be able to harvest in a day or so. Figs are ripening. Need to take notes and pictures when we harvest so we can figure out which varieties are best/worst.
I got all the irises that were previously posted moved to one zone in the garden and on the auto waterer. Need to increase pot size for the newer irises and add them to the zone so I don't have to hand water so many things.
Finally got the raised bed they were supposed to go filled and I'm putting the starts in and watering the heck out of them. Hopefully they come back..
Checked the volunteer zucchini, there's maybe 6 growing now, might be able to harvest in a day or so. Figs are ripening. Need to take notes and pictures when we harvest so we can figure out which varieties are best/worst.
I got all the irises that were previously posted moved to one zone in the garden and on the auto waterer. Need to increase pot size for the newer irises and add them to the zone so I don't have to hand water so many things.
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I thought the deer were bad here. Another one killed in front of the next door neighbor to DS. 1 mile down the road...
2 prancing across the back yard here and went into the Christmas Tree lot...
BUT never on the back porch that I know of...
2 prancing across the back yard here and went into the Christmas Tree lot...
BUT never on the back porch that I know of...
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GRRRRR -- somehow animals just seem to know which plants we don't want them to eat and decimate them. I don't mind sharing - but not one wild critter I know of wants to share. They just take all.
Sorry about that.
Sorry about that.
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Good news on the sweet potato plants, they look like they will grow back! There were 3 that were ripped completely out by the roots, but the rest look like they will grow back because they have teeny tiny leaves on them.
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Even plant those 3 ... Sweet potato vines are usually very forgiving 
. Determined to grow. Just keep them well watered until the roots grab new earth. 2 week 
. Determined to grow. Just keep them well watered until the roots grab new earth. 2 week farmerjan
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Can you not get damage kill permits for the deer???
My other suggestion will not set well with some people... set up, gut shoot them so they run away and die elsewhere in the case of animal rights activists causing problems...
Or put a 10 ft high perimeter fence around the whole property... They require 10 or 12 ft high fences for "exotic" species of deer and such in most places that raise them... game farms etc...
My other suggestion will not set well with some people... set up, gut shoot them so they run away and die elsewhere in the case of animal rights activists causing problems...
Or put a 10 ft high perimeter fence around the whole property... They require 10 or 12 ft high fences for "exotic" species of deer and such in most places that raise them... game farms etc...
