I have “tried” to grow a garden for the past 8 years! I don’t have a natural green thumb, so every year I change things up to hopefully a better garden. I have had total bombs…minimal success…and maybe once or twice I actually had a great garden. Well this year I thought it was a great one! I started the beds clean — mixed with mulch, manure, and top soil. I planted seeds and they all took off so well…I knew this year was THE year!
My mom and mother-in-law (who are amazing gardeners) came over mid-season and gushed over how great my garden looked…and I was super proud because usually it doesn’t look very good.
This is the garden first of July….everything looks so good!
Protector of the garden…
Then a very unfortunately thing happened this year… a momma deer found my garden. I have never had a deer problem because we always had a horse on the other side of the garden and he kept the deer away…but earlier this year we had to sell our beloved horse and it left the back 4 foot fence a small jump for the momma deer to come over and feast on my garden. Before I knew it – she had destroyed most of it.
Her not-so-cute little footprints that she trampled my plants with.
Strawberry plants…gone.
Where were you…
So that day I went out and got a 4 foot plastic fence to put on top of our 4 foot wooden fence to keep that lady out. I also got a couple of these bad boys from Amazon, Nite Guard. I have heard good things about them and I actually put one by my chicken coop too…never can protect those ladies too much. So we will see if this keeps momma deer out. I do know I will get some veggies to harvest…just not as much as I had hoped for.
