Praise for Tin Foil
My wife always makes wonderful meals; but last night she really did it. She wrapped Tilapia in tin foil with squash, onions, carrots, green peppers, mushrooms and a lot of fantastic seasonings. It was good enough to make your tongue slap your brains out. My mother used to cook with tin foil; but she usually used it to cover a roast or something. These little packets do a fantastic job of holding and mixing all of the different flavors.
The tomatoes are really blooming hard now. It looks like they are trying to make up for the time they lost from being “pruned” by the deer. The cucumbers are almost ready to pick. There is still some mesclun and chard that hasn’t bolted. We may really get a garden salad this year. The kale is especially delicious now. It is a little stronger than it was; but is still not bitter. The turnip greens are pretty ratty looking; but the bulbs are delicious. The mustard is bolting; but we are still picking a little bit.
The cleaning of the green house is going really slow. Even with the door open it is really hot in there. The few plants that are still there are really enjoying it. The compost is profiting from the hot wet weather. People are putting grass on the curb in plastic bags. It goes in my compost bins along with weeds from the garden and grass clippings from our yard and scraps from the kitchen. The real heroes of the compost bin are coffee grounds and egg shells. They make a very rich fertilizer. The egg shells need to be crushed very small as they are slow to deteriorate.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Praise for Tin Foil
Praise for Tin Foil
My wife always makes wonderful meals; but last night she really did it. She wrapped Tilapia in tin foil with squash, onions, carrots, green peppers, mushrooms and a lot of fantastic seasonings. It was good enough to make your tongue slap your brains out. My mother used to cook with tin foil; but she usually used it to cover a roast or something. These little packets do a fantastic job of holding and mixing all of the different flavors.
The tomatoes are really blooming hard now. It looks like they are trying to make up for the time they lost from being “pruned” by the deer. The cucumbers are almost ready to pick. There is still some mesclun and chard that hasn’t bolted. We may really get a garden salad this year. The kale is especially delicious now. It is a little stronger than it was; but is still not bitter. The turnip greens are pretty ratty looking; but the bulbs are delicious. The mustard is bolting; but we are still picking a little bit.
The cleaning of the green house is going really slow. Even with the door open it is really hot in there. The few plants that are still there are really enjoying it. The compost is profiting from the hot wet weather. People are putting grass on the curb in plastic bags. It goes in my compost bins along with weeds from the garden and grass clippings from our yard and scraps from the kitchen. The real heroes of the compost bin are coffee grounds and egg shells. They make a very rich fertilizer. The egg shells need to be crushed very small as they are slow to deteriorate.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
My wife always makes wonderful meals; but last night she really did it. She wrapped Tilapia in tin foil with squash, onions, carrots, green peppers, mushrooms and a lot of fantastic seasonings. It was good enough to make your tongue slap your brains out. My mother used to cook with tin foil; but she usually used it to cover a roast or something. These little packets do a fantastic job of holding and mixing all of the different flavors.
The tomatoes are really blooming hard now. It looks like they are trying to make up for the time they lost from being “pruned” by the deer. The cucumbers are almost ready to pick. There is still some mesclun and chard that hasn’t bolted. We may really get a garden salad this year. The kale is especially delicious now. It is a little stronger than it was; but is still not bitter. The turnip greens are pretty ratty looking; but the bulbs are delicious. The mustard is bolting; but we are still picking a little bit.
The cleaning of the green house is going really slow. Even with the door open it is really hot in there. The few plants that are still there are really enjoying it. The compost is profiting from the hot wet weather. People are putting grass on the curb in plastic bags. It goes in my compost bins along with weeds from the garden and grass clippings from our yard and scraps from the kitchen. The real heroes of the compost bin are coffee grounds and egg shells. They make a very rich fertilizer. The egg shells need to be crushed very small as they are slow to deteriorate.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
Monday, June 22, 2009
1st Day of Summer
1st Day of Summer
Today is officially the 1st day of summer and it is hotter than a blister here. We have been picking squash and throwing them in whatever we cook for about a week. Yesterday was the 1st day we had enough to make squash & onions. Yesterday we also got out 1st fig. I don’t think it ripened by itself. A bird had made a hole in it. We don’t mind eating after a bird. Maybe the figs will start ripening now. The tree is loaded.
The seasons are based on the position of the earth related to the sun. The solstices and equinoxes do not seem nearly as relevant, except for day length anymore. It has felt like summer here for almost 2 months. Spring started in late winter. Global warming and climate change are accelerating rapidly. 9 out of the last 10 years have seen record breaking temperatures. Droughts, floods and unpleasant acts of nature are on the rise. Human habitation in places where it did not happen before, lead to more serious disasters.
Speaking of disasters… Last year we got our 1st tomato on the 3rd of July. My friends have loads of tomatoes on their vines. The deer pruned my vines so heavily that we are just now getting the 1st blossoms. There were blossoms there before the deer ate them. Pepper spray and wire fence seem to have abated the problem. I sure hope someone will give me some early tomatoes.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
Today is officially the 1st day of summer and it is hotter than a blister here. We have been picking squash and throwing them in whatever we cook for about a week. Yesterday was the 1st day we had enough to make squash & onions. Yesterday we also got out 1st fig. I don’t think it ripened by itself. A bird had made a hole in it. We don’t mind eating after a bird. Maybe the figs will start ripening now. The tree is loaded.
The seasons are based on the position of the earth related to the sun. The solstices and equinoxes do not seem nearly as relevant, except for day length anymore. It has felt like summer here for almost 2 months. Spring started in late winter. Global warming and climate change are accelerating rapidly. 9 out of the last 10 years have seen record breaking temperatures. Droughts, floods and unpleasant acts of nature are on the rise. Human habitation in places where it did not happen before, lead to more serious disasters.
Speaking of disasters… Last year we got our 1st tomato on the 3rd of July. My friends have loads of tomatoes on their vines. The deer pruned my vines so heavily that we are just now getting the 1st blossoms. There were blossoms there before the deer ate them. Pepper spray and wire fence seem to have abated the problem. I sure hope someone will give me some early tomatoes.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Grape Leaves Revisited
Grape Leaves Revisited
We rolled grape leaves last night and it was a lot of fun. They were stuffed with rice and ground lamb seasoned with cumin, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt & pepper, lemon juice and chopped dill and mint from the garden. The stuffing was fantastic. The wrappers turned out to be too chewy when they 1st came out of the pot. After leaving them in the refrigerator awhile they were good. We followed the instructions from the three recipes in yesterday’s article plus the ones my wife found in a cook book. Our method was hybridized between all of them.
All three recipes agreed on how the leaves were processed and stuffed. The leaves were rinsed and blanched in boiling water for 3 minutes. After being laid flat on the counter on paper towels and having the stems removed a tablespoon of stuffing was placed on the leaf and the leaf was rolled like a small burrito. The leaves were layered (2 layers deep) in a pot and held down with a lid from a smaller pot. This was covered with chicken broth, lemon juice, mint leaves and salt water. They were cooked for 1 hour.
I have been munching them as I write and I have noticed that some of the leaves are dark and some are light. Not sure what causes this.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com/ , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Grape Leaves
Grape Leaves
Last year I planted 6 grape vines. This winter I chopped them back to almost nothing. They have proliferated to the point where they are much longer and larger already than they were last year. There may even be a few grapes this year. A grape vine takes 40 years to produce the really fine wine grapes. There is no need to wait so long to enjoy the fruits of the vine. Grapevines produce leaves even the 1st year.
The internet is loaded with grape leaf recipes. They are all some version of blanching the leaf and stuffing it and either boiling or baking it. Meat is not necessary. Seasoned rice or couscous or something like that will work fine. Most of the recipes call for ground beef, chicken or lamb. The seasonings are limitless. Grapes grow in almost every part of the world; so creative people everywhere have invented grape leaf recipes.
The deer have been eating the leaves on our grapevines; so there are not too many. There are fox grapes growing wild in the back of my office. We will try half and half tame grapes and wild grapes. I’ll let you know how it turns out. Here are some links to some good recipes. http://mideastfood.about.com/b/2006/08/02/warak-eineb-stuffed-grape-leaves-recipe.htm , http://greekfood.about.com/od/greekcookinglessons/ss/foldleaves.htm
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com/ , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
Last year I planted 6 grape vines. This winter I chopped them back to almost nothing. They have proliferated to the point where they are much longer and larger already than they were last year. There may even be a few grapes this year. A grape vine takes 40 years to produce the really fine wine grapes. There is no need to wait so long to enjoy the fruits of the vine. Grapevines produce leaves even the 1st year.
The internet is loaded with grape leaf recipes. They are all some version of blanching the leaf and stuffing it and either boiling or baking it. Meat is not necessary. Seasoned rice or couscous or something like that will work fine. Most of the recipes call for ground beef, chicken or lamb. The seasonings are limitless. Grapes grow in almost every part of the world; so creative people everywhere have invented grape leaf recipes.
The deer have been eating the leaves on our grapevines; so there are not too many. There are fox grapes growing wild in the back of my office. We will try half and half tame grapes and wild grapes. I’ll let you know how it turns out. Here are some links to some good recipes. http://mideastfood.about.com/b/2006/08/02/warak-eineb-stuffed-grape-leaves-recipe.htm , http://greekfood.about.com/od/greekcookinglessons/ss/foldleaves.htm
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com/ , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Summer Garden
Summer Garden
Hot weather and afternoon thunderstorm are a great combination for growing gardens. Squash is coming in every day. The greens are still producing; but some are going to seed. The oak leaf lettuce and mesclun have slowed down; but they haven’t bolted yet. Tiny little cucumbers are on the vines. The 4th of July is only 3 weeks away. Last year’s 1st tomato in my garden arrived on July 3. Is there a chance of a salad with everything from the garden?
I have hopes; but there are still some obstacles. The deer ate the blossoms from the tomato plants. The plants are recovering well; but they have very few blossoms. Mr. Blackley at Renfrow’s hardware said to use Swiss chard instead of lettuce. I thought I had bunches; but yesterday, I noticed that something had eaten most of it.
The fig tree is totally loaded with figs. They should start ripening soon. Then it will be time to race the birds. The bird bath should probably be located further from the fig trees. The birds probably think they are visiting a spa or something. They can take a bath, get a drink and partake of the garden, the figs and the mulberries. They do eat some bugs too; and they are really fun to watch. Maybe a feeding station should be added. The neighbor with the cats moved out; so it will be a bird feeder instead of a cat feeder now.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
Hot weather and afternoon thunderstorm are a great combination for growing gardens. Squash is coming in every day. The greens are still producing; but some are going to seed. The oak leaf lettuce and mesclun have slowed down; but they haven’t bolted yet. Tiny little cucumbers are on the vines. The 4th of July is only 3 weeks away. Last year’s 1st tomato in my garden arrived on July 3. Is there a chance of a salad with everything from the garden?
I have hopes; but there are still some obstacles. The deer ate the blossoms from the tomato plants. The plants are recovering well; but they have very few blossoms. Mr. Blackley at Renfrow’s hardware said to use Swiss chard instead of lettuce. I thought I had bunches; but yesterday, I noticed that something had eaten most of it.
The fig tree is totally loaded with figs. They should start ripening soon. Then it will be time to race the birds. The bird bath should probably be located further from the fig trees. The birds probably think they are visiting a spa or something. They can take a bath, get a drink and partake of the garden, the figs and the mulberries. They do eat some bugs too; and they are really fun to watch. Maybe a feeding station should be added. The neighbor with the cats moved out; so it will be a bird feeder instead of a cat feeder now.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Clean Green (house)
Clean Green (house)
Yesterday when I started to work in the garden at thunderstorm interrupted. It was time to clean the greenhouse. It was time to think about what went well and what didn’t in the greenhouse this winter. On the whole this was a disappointing season. Some plants died after being transplanted. A little bird ate some of the plants. I think “damping off” may have been part of the problem.
Yesterday was just organization. All of the labeled containers were sorted according to the plant they would hold. The floor was cleared and the flats and cloches were stacked up. The compost bag was removed from the “tea barrel”. The potting soil went into the compost bin. Next comes the real cleaning.
The rain barrels will be emptied and scrubbed with Clorox. All of the pots, flats and cloches will be soaked in a Clorox solution and stored. The heating pads will be wiped down with Clorox solution and stored. The shelves will be removed cleaned and painted and while they are out the windows will be washed. Some changes need to be made for next year. The sources of failure need to be identified and removed.
Last year was the 1st time store-bought potting soil was used. This year I will mix 1/3 worm castings, 1/3 play sand and 1/3 perlite (or something similar). I will use the blue stuff for fertilizer instead of compost tea. The gas space heater on top of the bottle was problematic. It was extremely expensive and I think the gas leakage may have affected the plants. The electric service in the greenhouse will not support a space heater in addition to the bottom heaters and the lights. Finding a new heat source will be one of this years challenges.
If anybody actually reads this blog and if anyone has suggestions for the greenhouse, please post them.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
Yesterday when I started to work in the garden at thunderstorm interrupted. It was time to clean the greenhouse. It was time to think about what went well and what didn’t in the greenhouse this winter. On the whole this was a disappointing season. Some plants died after being transplanted. A little bird ate some of the plants. I think “damping off” may have been part of the problem.
Yesterday was just organization. All of the labeled containers were sorted according to the plant they would hold. The floor was cleared and the flats and cloches were stacked up. The compost bag was removed from the “tea barrel”. The potting soil went into the compost bin. Next comes the real cleaning.
The rain barrels will be emptied and scrubbed with Clorox. All of the pots, flats and cloches will be soaked in a Clorox solution and stored. The heating pads will be wiped down with Clorox solution and stored. The shelves will be removed cleaned and painted and while they are out the windows will be washed. Some changes need to be made for next year. The sources of failure need to be identified and removed.
Last year was the 1st time store-bought potting soil was used. This year I will mix 1/3 worm castings, 1/3 play sand and 1/3 perlite (or something similar). I will use the blue stuff for fertilizer instead of compost tea. The gas space heater on top of the bottle was problematic. It was extremely expensive and I think the gas leakage may have affected the plants. The electric service in the greenhouse will not support a space heater in addition to the bottom heaters and the lights. Finding a new heat source will be one of this years challenges.
If anybody actually reads this blog and if anyone has suggestions for the greenhouse, please post them.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Hanging Tomatoes
Hanging Tomatoes
I suppose by now that every gardener has heard of the hanging tomato vines. It really seemed like a great idea; but I have been just a little skeptical. Yesterday I had lunch with my mother at Plantation Estates. She told me about one of the residents that had a hanging tomato vine. We walked down to take a look. This vine is huge and has large tomatoes on it. I am sold and will have 1 (or 2) on my patio by the time the weekend is over. It will be easy to take into the greenhouse when the weather gets cool.
We got a few more squash yesterday, 2 zucchinis and a yellow crookneck. They were very small. My policy is to pull the squash when the blossom falls. I may need to start waiting one more day. Every variety of summer squash has at least 1 fruit on the plant. The spaghetti squash has blossoms. I really hope the pepper and garlic spray will keep the pickle worms away this year.
A short thunder storm boomed through last night; so watering will not be necessary before Sunday. Thunderstorms have been predicted for every night since Monday; but that is the 1st one that materialized.
I lost 4 tomato plants this past week. I bought 3 yesterday at Renfrow’s and have 2 left in the greenhouse. I also bought some cayenne pepper plants. We don’t eat them; but they make good bug spray. I would have bought habanero’s if they had had them. Also had to get more cucumber seeds.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
I suppose by now that every gardener has heard of the hanging tomato vines. It really seemed like a great idea; but I have been just a little skeptical. Yesterday I had lunch with my mother at Plantation Estates. She told me about one of the residents that had a hanging tomato vine. We walked down to take a look. This vine is huge and has large tomatoes on it. I am sold and will have 1 (or 2) on my patio by the time the weekend is over. It will be easy to take into the greenhouse when the weather gets cool.
We got a few more squash yesterday, 2 zucchinis and a yellow crookneck. They were very small. My policy is to pull the squash when the blossom falls. I may need to start waiting one more day. Every variety of summer squash has at least 1 fruit on the plant. The spaghetti squash has blossoms. I really hope the pepper and garlic spray will keep the pickle worms away this year.
A short thunder storm boomed through last night; so watering will not be necessary before Sunday. Thunderstorms have been predicted for every night since Monday; but that is the 1st one that materialized.
I lost 4 tomato plants this past week. I bought 3 yesterday at Renfrow’s and have 2 left in the greenhouse. I also bought some cayenne pepper plants. We don’t eat them; but they make good bug spray. I would have bought habanero’s if they had had them. Also had to get more cucumber seeds.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Squash
Squash
Some of the greatest variety in the garden comes from the cucurbit family. The squash themselves are varied; but the family also includes pumpkins, cucumber and melons. One of my favorite things about squash are the volunteers. The leaves are pretty unmistakable; but you never know what the fruit will be. I found my first volunteer of the season yesterday. It was not in the garden. It was beside a little redbud tree planted in the front yard that was fertilized with compost. It looks like a cucumber. We will see.
The first yellow crookneck squash was picked on Monday. It was very small. The yellow crooknecks, zucchini and patty-pan squash all have tiny squashes on them. The time to pick them is when the blossom falls off. After that they just get tough.
Squash plants require a lot of space. Most plants fit in a 3’ wide row, and each row holds 2 or three rows of plants. Not squash, they get a 4’ wide row and the hills are 4’ on center. The hills start out as a post hole about 1’ deep. This is filled with compost. The loose dirt from digging the hole and whatever is around the hole is raked into a hill about 6” high. Three holes, like the finger holes in a bowling ball,are poked in the top of the hill. These holes each get 3 seeds and are filled up with loose dirt. After the plants come up, a mulch of compost is placed around the plants. This is topped up every week and expanded to cover all of the area under the plants. Squash plants put new roots down as they grow and these new roots need sustenance.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
Some of the greatest variety in the garden comes from the cucurbit family. The squash themselves are varied; but the family also includes pumpkins, cucumber and melons. One of my favorite things about squash are the volunteers. The leaves are pretty unmistakable; but you never know what the fruit will be. I found my first volunteer of the season yesterday. It was not in the garden. It was beside a little redbud tree planted in the front yard that was fertilized with compost. It looks like a cucumber. We will see.
The first yellow crookneck squash was picked on Monday. It was very small. The yellow crooknecks, zucchini and patty-pan squash all have tiny squashes on them. The time to pick them is when the blossom falls off. After that they just get tough.
Squash plants require a lot of space. Most plants fit in a 3’ wide row, and each row holds 2 or three rows of plants. Not squash, they get a 4’ wide row and the hills are 4’ on center. The hills start out as a post hole about 1’ deep. This is filled with compost. The loose dirt from digging the hole and whatever is around the hole is raked into a hill about 6” high. Three holes, like the finger holes in a bowling ball,are poked in the top of the hill. These holes each get 3 seeds and are filled up with loose dirt. After the plants come up, a mulch of compost is placed around the plants. This is topped up every week and expanded to cover all of the area under the plants. Squash plants put new roots down as they grow and these new roots need sustenance.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
The Season Advances
The Season Advances
It is starting to feel like summer. The sugar peas were so scroungy yesterday that they just got pulled off. Some of the greens are bolting. Broccoli is making heads. Cucumbers and winter squash are climbing. The tomatoes are making blossoms; but if the deer don’t leave them alone, they will never make tomatoes. One of the potato plants died (not from natural causes I think). There was a little new potato in the ground beneath it.
The cucumbers are something of a disappointment this year. I have planted a 35 foot row, 3 times. There are about 3 cucumber plants. The seeds don’t come up. The soil will get a test this weekend and any needed amendments will be added. I will try one more time. Cucumbers are one of our favorite vegetables. They are too expensive to buy the way we like to eat them. If I had a vacant row somewhere, I would plant somewhere else.
The rain has not been dependable so far this year. We either get deluges that wash things away or nothing. We have had to water several times already.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
It is starting to feel like summer. The sugar peas were so scroungy yesterday that they just got pulled off. Some of the greens are bolting. Broccoli is making heads. Cucumbers and winter squash are climbing. The tomatoes are making blossoms; but if the deer don’t leave them alone, they will never make tomatoes. One of the potato plants died (not from natural causes I think). There was a little new potato in the ground beneath it.
The cucumbers are something of a disappointment this year. I have planted a 35 foot row, 3 times. There are about 3 cucumber plants. The seeds don’t come up. The soil will get a test this weekend and any needed amendments will be added. I will try one more time. Cucumbers are one of our favorite vegetables. They are too expensive to buy the way we like to eat them. If I had a vacant row somewhere, I would plant somewhere else.
The rain has not been dependable so far this year. We either get deluges that wash things away or nothing. We have had to water several times already.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Oh Deer!
Oh Deer!
We enjoy seeing deer out the window. I don’t even mind their tracks in the garden and the little piles of “marbles” in the yard. After all, where I live was all country and woods when I moved in. The deer had a home too. Now it is all houses and roads. The deer are isolated to small undeveloped wooded lots. They are almost homeless.
Now they have violated the sacred tomato plants. Never has that happened before. They ate the tops off of all but two plants. The tomatoes were blooming. In order to close the proverbial barn door after the horse gets out, the tomatoes are now wrapped with plastic fence. They can’t stay that way; but maybe it will stop the munching long enough for a recovery. There’s plenty of honeysuckle. The deer should eat that.
The sugar peas are looking shabby. The fall onions have gone to seed. Watermelon was planted in the space between sugar peas and onions. It is time to give them room to grow. Time to build a “watermelon fence”. The watermelon fence will require the plastic fence that is wrapping the tomatoes now.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
We enjoy seeing deer out the window. I don’t even mind their tracks in the garden and the little piles of “marbles” in the yard. After all, where I live was all country and woods when I moved in. The deer had a home too. Now it is all houses and roads. The deer are isolated to small undeveloped wooded lots. They are almost homeless.
Now they have violated the sacred tomato plants. Never has that happened before. They ate the tops off of all but two plants. The tomatoes were blooming. In order to close the proverbial barn door after the horse gets out, the tomatoes are now wrapped with plastic fence. They can’t stay that way; but maybe it will stop the munching long enough for a recovery. There’s plenty of honeysuckle. The deer should eat that.
The sugar peas are looking shabby. The fall onions have gone to seed. Watermelon was planted in the space between sugar peas and onions. It is time to give them room to grow. Time to build a “watermelon fence”. The watermelon fence will require the plastic fence that is wrapping the tomatoes now.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.
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