Corn should be ready in about 20 days
Damage to Squash plants from the groundhog
Solution to ground hog problem - electric wire!Well, the good news is that after 3 days in solitary confinement, Zena is back to being the Warrior Chicken. She is on alert for invaders and will hopefully being laying eggs again soon. If anyone else gets it in their little chicken head to go broody, in the cage they go right away.
We've been enjoying watching the deer most days in the morning and evening. They are only eating the tree leaves so I'm in no hurry to chase them off.
We do have a problem with a pesky groundhog who has been very crafty about digging under our fence to eat the leaves on the squash, watermelon and pumpkin plants. Glen has been out every evening reinforcing the bottom of the fence but he still gets in. We finally resorted to electric fence wire, just a little shock to scare him off. This was working very well, but since we turn it off when the chickens go out (don't want fried chicken - that was bad I know), the groundhog learned when he could invade. Now Glen has put up more fencing to keep the chickens away from the elec wire so we can leave it on. This is working, no groundhog, no fried chicken.
Of course the deer that came out last night were not very happy about the fence, I guess they wanted to get to the wild berries on the other side of the fence. It's hard trying to keep all of the animals happy.
The garden is growing like crazy. We are picking almost every day and look forward to squash, beets and green beans within the next week. I am getting ready to do a second planting of green beans, spinach, more corn if I can find a place and I'm also going to add carrots.
