This city girl excited about her 2nd yr of gardening . .tell me about yours!

[SALUKI_LOVER]

distract them with deer corn . . . as many deer as we have we've never had a problem with them . . my neighbor has a crab apple tree and I've been feeding corn so we hoping that the other food is keeping them from our garden . . .now, I did see one garden that had 2 fences as a double barrier...there are so many wonderful gardens to peak out throughout our community..there is one on Six Forks that is actually screened in with a door . . . . when you make that turn on Six Forks to Blue Jay Point you'll see it on the left hand side set back . . I've actually driven right up to it . . I love the screen door...I may have a photo in my album to show you..

our tomatos are about to come in . . so far the cherry but now the big boys!

[SALUKI_LOVER]

Our garden has had a bad cause of Blossom-End-Rot this year. Luckily a gf of mine diagnosed it for me . . ."black spot at the base of the tomatos that eventuall rots out". We caught it in time so all I needed to do was go purchase a mineral spray at Lowe's and the maters' are now looking good but I was really panicked.

The key is to fortify your soil with lime so next year . . lime it is.
Anyone else has this problem?

[lamishra]

Next time you get blossom end rot, dissolve a couple of tums in water and sprinkle around the base of your plant. It's thought to be a calcium deficiency in the soil. This works for me every time! ALso, start adding crushed egg shells and manure into your compost for next years crops.

[thesnowapefamily]

I've given up on the tomatoes and squash, as both have been rummaged by squash bugs (despite my best efforts to control them - I only got one zucchini and one crookneck squash) and deer (they bit the tomato plants so terribly that I have no flowers at all; they even bit into two beautiful tomatoes!).

My cucumber are thriving, though; we've cut about 8 cukes in the last two weeks.

i'm learning as I go along... next year will be different for sure!