Our garden was a disaster this year. We have all raised beds because of two huge black walnut trees next door. Need to make sure we get lots of nutrients in those beds before planting next year. I think they’re depleted of nutrients.
Deer ate our hostas, pole beans and some tomatoes. We added height to our fence and stopped them from getting in. They even found the lone volunteer sqash we found growing in our compost pile! We defeated the bunny by adding rabbit fencing. Then, a groundhog found its way in and ate the brussels sprouts - first time growing them and they were really doing well. It ate the tops off of our carrots, our bush beans and ate all the leaves off of the sweet potatoes and pumpkins.
At least we got enough tomatoes to get several quarts put back. No caggabe either, so I finally packed it in and bought 50 lbs of cabbage to make sauerkraut.
I won’t give up. This is war!
I think I need to take a gardening class. I need to grow a green thumb. I sure as heck don’t have one now!
The deer, rabbits and groundhog destroyed your food plants. A gardening class isn’t going to fix that and your thumb didn’t have a chance to be green.
It is war and I defeated the plant murderers by growing in containers on my deck and sprouting seeds under the grow lamp as earlier this year all the seeds were murdered by the invaders.
If you keep the raised beds, use row cover and/or net to keep the invaders out. For easy fertilizer I have a stack of Job’s stakes to put into the soil to feed the plants on a continual basis as the stakes slowly feed the plant.
I can’t do heavy manual work and can’t take much heat, so I cheat every way I can to make it easier.