Monday, March 1, 2010
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gardening among wildlife in Virginia
About Me
Awarded by Soliloquy
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- Amphibians (6)
- Asian Garden (1)
- Birds (8)
- Books (5)
- Compost (1)
- Deer (6)
- Fencing (1)
- Fox (1)
- Gardens I've Visited (2)
- Insects (5)
- Japanese Gardens (1)
- Plans (2)
- Ponds (5)
- Seeds (2)
- Shrubs and Trees (3)
- Snakes (4)
- Vegetables (8)
- Weeds and Wildflowers (4)
- Woods (2)
This Fall (or when the humidity dries up)
- Brush in woods cut back again
- Coreopsis in the front bed moved back from the sidewalk
- Grass removed from the Kitchen Garden and replaced with newspaper and pine needles
- Rose removed from patio trellis
- Trees that are dead and sick in the yard cut down
Next time...
- Add compost and leaf mold to the kitchen garden beds this fall, not in the spring
- Plant lots of peas and corn instead of just a few seeds
- Cover the beds with black cloth so I can get a head start on tomatoes, squash and melons
How we arrived...
"I found an unbelievable house, it's worth no more vacations for a place like this." It was my Dad. I looked at the picture and read the description. It was incredible, but out of our price range and I like vacations. Then, on the way to see another, my realtor drove me by a beautiful house on an incredible lot; it was the Dad House. The price dropped and after six months of waiting, the Dad House was ours!
Garden Links
Deer have eaten
- Acorn Squash
- Asiatic lilies
- Beans
- Cosmos
- Dill
- Echinacea
- Geranium (Cranesbill)
- Gladiola
- Hosta
- Parsley
- Pepper
- Scarlet Runner Bean
- Sedum
- Sunflowers
- Tomatoes
So far these are safe
- Basil
- Bronze Fennel
- Butterfly Bush
- Coreopsis
- Hydrangea
- Iris
- Lavendar
- Lemon Basil
- Lemon Verbena
- Marigolds
- Oregano
- Papyrus
- Pineapple Sage
- Rose
- Rosemary
- Salvias
- Scented Geraniums
- Sorrel
- Spirea
- Verbena
- Yucca-lucky me
- Zinnia