Got the second side of the backyard deer netted. The net is 7 foot X 100 foot. Post holes dug and concrete and 10 foot poles cemented in. Screws placed into pole to hold the netting in place. Zip ties added for security to keep the net on the screws. One more side to go and the deer won't be able to come in. Next is making the gates at the front of the house to attach to the deer netting so we have easy access to the backyard.

That sounds great Karen. Keep those deer out!

so glad you got it done Karen.. hopefully a good crop year!!

All those critters are so damaging....my new fence seems to be working, but I'll know for sure when the tomatoes ripen!

Planted melon seeds. Planted Avara, Tasty Bites and Magnifienza. Should be tasty melons.

OMG I found Sorrel seeds at the garden center near by today.. Strawberry Blossoms Farms had the sorrel seeds in a seperate location label Botanical garden interests. Since it's a perennial I'm going to start them indoors and get them started. Should have been started earlier but I'm excited to give it a try. Have a spot picked out for them already. Planted some Horseradish today in a rock garden bed outside the back door. It should keep it contained as it is supposed to be invasive. Crossing fingers the horseradish sprouts in the new bed as it is completely lasagne layered with compost, raw vegetative waste, dirt, straw, grass clippings, sticks and whatever I could add to the bed to fill it in. The top 6 inches is pure compost mixed with peat, coir and clay. The volunteer cantaloupe are thriving in the lasagne bed at the moment. Gonna let a few grow and build a trellis for them to grow on.

Got some more Cinnamon Basil and Thai basil planted amongst the Tomatoes. Also bought more petunia's at the garden center to plant in the front of the garden. Hoping to rid the bad bugs away.

I've never tasted sorrel....hard to find! The melons are a great idea, Pixie always has beautiful ones.....I grew horseradish many years ago....it was contained, but still took over the whole area......my DH dug it out....you have to grate the roots outside, they are very powerful, & will make you gasp for breath!

The horseradish is in a contained bed. Love horseradish!!!!!! It's good for clearing out the sinuses in a flash.

Looking carefully at my tomato plants and seeing all sorts of newly set green baby tomatoes. Have found ones on Sunsuger, Sweet Million, Juliet and Vivia Italia.

I have 6 Vivia Italia plants this year. Last year I could not find six packs and only had one plant. So I never did make my own stewed tomatoes last summer. The summer before I had a six pack of Vivia Italia and made stewed tomatoes. They make the best stewed tomatoes!

My Thai hot peppers have peppers about an inch long already. My favorite pepper for making hot sauce and red pepper flakes. Only spotted a few little tiny green tomatoes so far on my Bloody Butcher plants. The Potato plants are growing ridiculously fast. I started them in a Burlap bag placed inside a large milk crate, as they grow I add in more compost, coir, grass clippings, straw, or whatever I can find. I have now filled the entire burlap bag and ready to set another bag with bottom cut out and more milk crates stacked ontop. (Cutting out the bottom of the crates for easy stacking and containment). This will be the fourth milk crate going up. Can't wait to see how many potatoes I will get.
Got some Sorrel seeds planted today as well as some Pole Beans just before the rains hit.

BlackCat08 said:My Thai hot peppers have peppers about an inch long already. My favorite pepper for making hot sauce and red pepper flakes. Only spotted a few little tiny green tomatoes so far on my Bloody Butcher plants. The Potato plants are growing ridiculously fast. I started them in a Burlap bag placed inside a large milk crate, as they grow I add in more compost, coir, grass clippings, straw, or whatever I can find. I have now filled the entire burlap bag and ready to set another bag with bottom cut out and more milk crates stacked ontop. (Cutting out the bottom of the crates for easy stacking and containment). This will be the fourth milk crate going up. Can't wait to see how many potatoes I will get.
Got some Sorrel seeds planted today as well as some Pole Beans just before the rains hit.

I love that idea for planting the potatoes. I hope it turns out to be very successful.

Very slow going in my garden.....everything has germinated, but I need sun & warmth.....

I am ahead of schedule here. At least on my tomatoes which are setting green tomatoes very early this year.

Hurray, my melon seeds I sowed the other day are coming up nicely.

Beans comming up. But then beans sprout quickly in nicer weather.

Something....chippies no doubt...have eaten my bean seedlings....going to replant!

Marilyn I had to cover my beans until they where tall enough so the chippies or the birds wouldn't munch them thinking it was a worm popping out of the ground. Just fenced over my sunflower plants as one by one they got chewed off or dug out.

Oh oh. Yep, replant and maybe put some hardware cloth or screening around and over the baby plants.

My kids will be in charge of watching over the Garden this weekend while I'm away at the RU. Should be interesting when I get back home Monday. Told both they are in charge of watering, weeding, chipmunk and deer patrol. Made another batch of deer repellant and told them to spray the edge of the garden and the rose bushes out front. Compost heaps X 5 need to be turned, Black Raspberry T trellis needs to be built, lawn mowed and edged by the time I get back home. They both looked at me like I was on drugs. lol They always wonder why I'm always outside. I suggested they both sleep outdoors so they can be on patrol 24/7. I'm thinking wild party at my house while I'm gone.