This Year's Garden

Every Spring we plant a garden. But every year we seem to have more and more guests who are extremely unwelcome. For the past two years, A has put so much work into the garden, yet, we haven't eaten much from it. The varmints get to it first. We've tried fencing, flying plastic bags, flying pie pans, bells, crisscrossing wire, extra posts throughout the garden, specific scents to deter animals, even urinating around it. Yip. A relieved himself nightly in hopes to keep deer away. Nothing worked.

The other problem we face every year is keeping the plants alive and heartily producing, despite our cement like clay. We treat it with manure, lime, sand, compost, whatever...By June, it's back to it's clay state and extremely hard. So this year, A built garden boxes. They're filled with real dirt and manure and we're hoping we'll have more success producing our vegetables. It will be easier to pull weeds and we can actually sit down as we work the garden. I say "we", but I'm rarely out there in the garden. Seriously, all credit goes out to A.

We still don't have a solution for our critters of the night. But I have heard of Liquid Fence, so I think we need to try it. It's that or an electric fence with extreme voltage.

Daddy's helpers on the day we unloaded the dirt. Late March.

E wearing sunglasses (good girl) and becoming best friends with worms.
O being helpful by sweeping up the dirt and wearing E's pink shoes.
They fit.
W drawing in the dirt, trying not to get too dirty.