here and there..
During my 2 ½ week absence, the (apparently) resident deer threw a garden party, in MY garden. Mostly, they snacked on hostas; mostly the most colorful and centrally placed for visual impact. The gardens got spanked. This has been the way this year. A month or so ago, the neighbor’s heifers walked up the lane and threw one of their own, mostly trimming trees and leaving party favors in and amongst the deep foot prints tracking over the field and lawn. This would be a good time to say that I’m really happy the damage wasn’t greater, that they didn’t get further into the blueberry patch after they broke the fence down, and this would also be the time to say that it’s REALLY GREAT that they weren’t interested in the raspberries, yet. YET! Turns out that this may be a bumper year for raspberries. My bushes have never been this full. That’s the good part, here’s the bad.. that horrid and deadly boring worm is in many of the tips and those must be cut off and burned asap. IN the flower beds, the weeds grew faster than the flowering plants. Why is that always the case? If the flowers grew faster, would we call them weeds? I bet we would. If I spend the next two weeks trying to play catch up, I’ll still be two weeks behind. Gardens are like that. This might be a good year to try out the wild look.
Saturday, I high tailed it out of the house to go visit Richard and David, friends from the spinning guild, for a quick lesson on the proper way to use combs. I borrowed a set of minis from Cindy to process some of the incredible ‘bunny crack’ purchased early in the spring and still waiting. Kim had some good suggestions on her blog a week ago. After reading that, I decided to go for it. David showed me these..
Nice huh? The humidity is off the charts this morning, you could probably cut the air. Maybe a bit sticky for fiber prep.
One more observation… Spielberg could use this..there are these "balls" of flying insects hovering in the air in different places in my yard. Honest. One ball has been out there for a couple hours already. What’s that about?
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5 responses to “here and there..”
My deepest sympathy regarding your garden. I find by this time in the garden season it is a battlefield out there. I just read somewhere about ‘”balls” of flying insects’–they are the guy insects hanging out waiting for the babe insects to fly by…Good luck, I am getting ready to suit up to do battle with the Dreaded Rose Beetles.
A weed is anything growing where you don’t want it to grow and I’ve got a lot of those, lol
Beth
It gets very frustrating. Sometimes the only thing you can do is hope there is enough food out there, so that an occasional hosta is spared. I still spray with Deer Fence. I see the hoofprints of the devil all around my garden.
The combs look like deadly weapons.
Judy….did you buy those combs that David showed us????
Ooooh, I’m so jealous of those Ramer combs. I’ve been coveting some for a while now–maybe later this year.
Sorry about your hostas, but at least hostas grow like weeds. They’ll be back soon.