A little more on the deer fence around my vegetable garden: It’s really working very well, as far as the deer are concerned. The biggest challenge to it right now is the squash, which will go to any length to get through to the other side of the fence. There has been some damage to [...]
It’s not the ribbons of flagging tape that are keeping the deer out. It’s the almost invisible black plastic netting that the ribbons are hanging from. It works – so far. This is my second year using it. (See previous post about the deer fence.) I regretted taking it down last fall, as it had [...]
Fog is really neat. I’ve been mesmerized by it out on the ocean on a sailboat, where it becomes your whole world – but that’s another blog post. The other morning after the fog moved in, I was startled by the colours of the flowers. It was partly the contrast between the saturated colour close [...]
So yesterday I put up the deer fence around the garden. I didn’t get around to pegging the bottom of the netting to the soil, but did bravely transplant my broccoli. This morning when I went to check on my baby brassicas, I was very surprised to see the leg and hoof of a deer [...]
The Victoria Day weekend is coming up, traditionally the time you can expect it to be safe to get your garden planted – though I wouldn’t put out the tomatoes just yet. But the potatoes are now happily buried in the new part of my growing vegetable garden. This area of so-called lawn (“so-called” because [...]
Like the fox last week, this raccoon came up the road from Oak Island, saw the houses up ahead and decided the woods behind our house were a better bet. In six years of living here, it’s the first raccoon I’ve seen. A neighbour told me he saw a black bear just down the road [...]
These intrepid ducks were not at all shy as my husband herded them out of the garden and back down the road. I bet they’re happy now: it’s pouring rain. Danny was briefly a hurricane but is down to a post-tropical storm that will pass south of Nova Scotia on a similar path to Hurricane [...]
My deer fence looks like a carnival, the thin mesh festooned with orange and yellow flagging tape. What’s inside is not terribly tempting to deer, not yet anyway. It may not be big news for hungry humans either. The potatoes should do OK, and I hope to get some beans – especially if we get [...]
I’m determined to develop a garden on this corner of our property. Grass won’t even grow there, just weeds and wild strawberries. Over the 5 years that we’ve lived here, I’ve cleared a 15′x15′ patch and tried growing things like beans, potatoes and broccoli. But deer, and maybe rabbits, have munched whatever managed to grow [...]
