Gardening

[Don Alaska]

It appears we will have a lot of raspberries this year, but the blue berries and lingonberries have not produced at all. Reasonable serviceberries and honeyberries/haskaps. Raspberries are just beginning to ripen here, so we'll see, but there are lots of green berries.

We are starting to get into our season of plenty, with cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, zucchini, peas all coming in. Beans are behind, but some varieties have a lot of baby beans and blossoms. Tomatoes in the greenhouses are beginning to ripen as well, although the cherry tomatoes have been coming on for a while. Peppers are behind and the corn--an iffy crop here in any weather--is finally growing and is about head-high, which is as big as it gets here. When we had livestock, corn was worthwhile, as if it didn't mature, the goats would delight in chomping the stalks and leaves. Now it really isn't dependable, but I have the seeds and will plant them until I run out since we have empty garden space ow that there are only two of us living here.

 

[Ken Anderson]

I'm just getting the first crop of lingonberries, but, since I have at least five varieties, the others will kick in between now and mid-fall.

 

[Mary Stetler]

Deer basically ate all my blueberry bushes and the rest did not produce well. Drought related? Hope the blueberries come back. I got honeyberries and service berries back in June.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

Deer basically ate all my blueberry bushes and the rest did not produce well. Drought related? Hope the blueberries come back. I got honeyberries and service berries back in June.

You need another dog to chase the deer away ! We had squirrels and birds eating all of our berries and fruit, but now that we have the inside/outside kitty cats, they pretty well keep the small critters away from our property.
When I lived in Idaho, I always had salt/mineral blocks and water out for my horses, so I had deer in the pasture , too. They did chew up my garden, ecxcept for what I had right next to the trailer house.
Since I had to pack water for so many years, that is actually where I had most of my garden plants anyway. It was much easier to water them next to the house where I could get the pickup and the barrels of water.

 

[Mary Stetler]

You need another dog to chase the deer away ! We had squirrels and birds eating all of our berries and fruit, but now that we have the inside/outside kitty cats, they pretty well keep the small critters away from our property.
When I lived in Idaho, I always had salt/mineral blocks and water out for my horses, so I had deer in the pasture , too. They did chew up my garden, ecxcept for what I had right next to the trailer house.
Since I had to pack water for so many years, that is actually where I had most of my garden plants anyway. It was much easier to water them next to the house where I could get the pickup and the barrels of water.

I did get a new barn cat. Don't know how effective he will be but ,if he goes after the birds at the feeder, I wonder how long he will last. I saw a dog I would love to get but will it like chicken? Chase sheep?...Might just stick with a pew pew.

 

[Marie Miller]

I did get a new barn cat. Don't know how effective he will be but ,if he goes after the birds at the feeder, I wonder how long he will last. I saw a dog I would love to get but will it like chicken? Chase sheep?...Might just stick with a pew pew.

Mary, it has to be a barn cat trined by mom. Hunting is instinctive but not killing and identifying prey. Fluffy is not a mouser and a mouser will focus on easy prey.