New York Renovator

Now that the snow is melting, I can walk to the backyard to access the winter damage done by the deer and snowmobilers. :-p

My poor apple trees. My poor grape vine!! I could skin those varmints alive, I could.

My grapevine didn’t get it as bad as the apple trees. The busted post is from the Husband varmint. He accidentally backed into the garden fencing when working on the brakes, lol.

But my apples trees! ! Ever year I go out to access the damage, and every year it’s the same– the trees are half eaten by those STUPID DEER!!!!!!!!! I hate them, I do.

By the way, that goofy string on the limb is my hokey version of deer repellent. Well, it WAS deer repellent. Well, actually, I guess it wasn’t. It didn’t repel anything!!!! GAH!!! It was a bar of soap hanging from the string. The soap (so I heard) repels deer. MY deer are SO nasty that they even eat soap!!!

*cries*

I have to go high tech, I think. I can’t sit back and watch my beautiful trees chewed up and devoured by critters that deserve only to be made into stew. I hear coyotes repel deer! mauhahahhahaha!!!! But… coyotes repel ME, too. So…. next best thing is to get….

COYOTE WHIZ!!! Yes! Well, technically it’s called “Coyote Urea.” *adjusts glasses* I really don’t care WHAT the durn stuff is, as long as it makes those deer high-tail it outta my yard. Buy.com has some of this stuff on sale for under $15. It’s called Shake Away Coyote Urea, and one application is supposed to last up to 90 days. That’s better than anything else I’ve have ever seen.

So, I hope my problems will be solved… now I need to figure out how to repel the blasted snowmobilers that tear up my yard…

Our growing season is so brief here in Upstate New York, we tend to get exuberant over seemingly small things. Such as, MY PEAS ARE NOW ONE INCH HIGH!!!!!!!! Look!

Aren’t they beautiful?! (Ignore the weed).

The grapes are also doing very well. I am really enjoying watching these things grow.

And our lettuce is doing well. I have to get in here and thin the rows, though. We eat a lot of lettuce and fresh spinach during the summer, so I have five rows of this stuff planted!

The only thing not doing well is the cantaloupe. It’s been a very chilly and cloudy spring, and looks like the summer is starting off that way, too. It is unusually cool. So I don’t think my melons are going to do so well. It’s a good thing I never got around to planting the watermelon; I would have wasted my seeds.

My apple trees have dozens of tiny little apples on them! This is the first year we’re going to have a real harvest. I just hope I can keep the flies and caterpillars at bay… I may spray my trees to keep the bugs away.

How is your garden growing?