Montana garden bounty.
Today was a good day in the garden.
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I am not sure what I'll get yet. I have tomatoes forming but some buck keeps eating the tops off the plants and the blooms from the potatoes and the onions!
I'm about over it with all of it already. Kind of disappointing.
Your garden looks to be productive, I'm glad for you. I will be relying more on the farmer's market this year.
It’s organic and doesn’t harm critters. My garden is safe from deer but squirrels and chipmunks often help themselves but the deer off also seems to deter them for the most part.
At the hardware store. Sounds like it works, I think I'll get some, sounds easier. 
It may well have mint in it which is probably why I passed it by in the first place when I read the ingredients. I have a serious allergy to it. But, this patch of veggies is not at my house and I could adjust how I water it and I could get my pal, whose back yard it is in, might do the applications for me. He's more interested in the garden now that he's had some onions from it, and lettuce from my patch at my place. Amazing how that works.
I'll look at it tomorrow when I go t the store, today is recovery day from the event I was at yesterday.
Somebody's eating them and I haven't seen any carcasses about the neighborhood so I can't say exactly what's going on there. It's my friend's yard, they said they saw a buck out there and I found tracks. There's a rabbit but it's not that tall.
What animal eats nightshades? All I ever saw were birds and bugs. I don't think it's the finches and sparrows either.
My garden has turned into a fortress to keep them out. I have all raised beds because I live in the Rattlesnake which is a gravel bed courtesy of Glacial Lake Missoula. The deer are relentless but I’ve finally got my little garden protected. I don’t grow a lot…tomatoes, peppers, tomatillos, cukes, peas, beans and a few artichokes. I rely heavily on the farmer’s market. I love that I can buy meats, cheeses and even fish there now. Once in a blue moon I treat myself to a mimosa while I’m shopping there….
Just feeling antisocial after the pandemic and knowing a fair amount of the people there are rumpers. But someone asked me to go because they were working late and would miss it and wanted some special produce. So I went and ran into a few friendly acquaintances and found out there's a big bluegrass jamboree that I used to go to is starting back up, one of the musicians I know from that told me about and is expecting to see me there. Guess my plans for the weekend are set. I have some homework to do, I've done nothing for months.
The weather is looking to be cool and overcast, perfect condition long as it doesn't rain. It's supposed to be like that with rain sometimes for days. I am thrilled, had enough of the heat and we didn't even have it that bad so far, fingers crossed. But everything seems to be kind of "over it" as far as gardening is going. Strange year. The onions and spuds will be okay but it looks like I'll be a little short with the tomatoes.
I didn't think I'd need to protect nightshades from the deer. They have never eaten them in any other garden that I've had in deer country.
I guess I'll build a fortress next time, my buddy has all kind of things I can do that with but I might just buy one of those little electric fences that runs on a little battery, change it out once a week or so, maybe. I have to think that out for next year.
I dress with olive oil, salt and minced garlic. Roast till mostly dehydrated, but freeze them, so they can still be a little juicy (they don't mold frozen).
I make from them tomato sauce - with organic diced canned tomatoes and paste (from Costco)! Makes a delicious single batch sauce with just a few roast tomatoes. Yum - you can taste the sunshine!
a hunk of granite from Brazil that I fell in love with. It amazes me that that piece of rock came out of the ground. We live on a miraculous planet.
I’d better get it figured out and fast!
I’ve got Serrano peppers and cilantro in the garden. I am headed out now to the farmers market for onions. This looks easy and fresh. I’ve looked at a ton of recipes…it’s hard to know what will be a good one. I’m make this today.
