The tomatoes did finally go in at the end of last month. Lydia helped water them in. The chickens watched through our makeshift fence. They see our strawberries getting some color and occasionally flap up and over. We haven't moved the eggplant or peppers yet. The rain, oh the rain. At least our garlic, shallots onions and potatoes are huge and happy.
All our greens are growing fast but so are the slugs and snails. I go out in the dusk hour after the girls have been tucked into bed and pick them off one by one. Pablo brings me the Sluggo and shakes his head laughing. I beam up at him from my crouched stance in the realization that some loop is completed by feeding these slimy suckers to the chickens.
The deer have started coming round again. Fall and spring. We noticed nibbles on our dogwood last week and a broken branch on a young apple tree. This afternoon the girls and I watched this fellow taking a rest by blueberries.
We use an egg spray (blend one raw egg in a 1/2 gallon of water and spray it on any foliage they might munch on) to keep them away. It has worked better than anything else to deter the deer these past few years.
