ahh, rodent, I feel for you. Is it just one deer? When does she/he usually come?
It's a buck! He was in again last night, kneeling to get his head under the netting. I was out there so fast I almost kicked him in the nether regions. The does are so much smaller the netting comes up to their chest, but the buck is big enough to just walk over the netting. I decided today to put up a real fence around my flowers. So now I'm looking at getting someone to sink some poles.
Speaking of which, two does and a young buck yearling, are now using my yard for nap time. They all lay out in the dirt that hasn't been seeded yet and they're in my yard for hours. I threaten them every time I walk outside, but they just ignore me.
So harvest this year looks to be as follows: total of 10 strawberries. No blueberries. Three teeny tiny green cherry tomatoes. Maybe three wintergreen berries. And this one's on me. I had the wintergreen plant out in direct sunlight in this heat. I found out, after all but two leaves turned brown, that it likes mottled sunlight. Why I didn't check that earlier...
More bad news. It is definitely orchard grass in the front of my yard where I wanted lawn. I could throttle that contractor. He put the lawn in the back and the orchard seed in the front, opposite of where I wanted it. I'm trying to get hold of him now, although I don't know how this can be fixed.
And in other news, those two year old Shasta daisies that are blooming like crazy. I could have saved myself the trouble. You all know I put down a couple seed rolls a few years ago. You know, water and millions of plants come up? Well, guess what came up and bloomed this year for the first time. Shasta daisies. I ask you!
However, there is one thing happening which I guess I am happy about. The wildflowers, although now planted among the lawn grass instead of the orchard grass, are blooming. I found little purple ones, an orange one, and a couple of little yellow daisies.
Tomorrow it's supposed to be 90° again, but after that the weather will moderate a little and should be nicer. So next week I'll go out and get pictures to post. Meantime I think I'm going to go drown my sorrows in chocolate.