Sprouting & Growing S'more

It's been a while since I've updated you on the garden growth...
Well. Things are... growing!
I managed to get a crop of strawberries from my little strawberry patch before the deer ate up the plants.
The Zucchini & Squash are doing magnificently. They've taken over their plot of earth and are going to conquer the world next. It's funny, I planted all of these squash and I don't even like eating them... In my defense, I planted some last year and they did very poorly. This year, I took it as a personal challenge to do better. It worked.
Note to self: Mix half potting soil, half local dirt and large amounts of chicken fertilizer for out of control squash of all varieties.

Ah well.
I put up a partial Deer Fence in phases. Now, I have two completely fenced-in areas. Before I managed to finish the whole project, the awful buggers managed to get around at the fence at least once, chomping a path of destruction and wreaking havoc on my Tomato plants. (Which had been doing SO well...)

I'm determined to have a tomato crop despite the terrible Deer. If those critters hadn't gotten to the tomato plants in the garden, they'd all be massive and overflowing with tomato manna! (Or so I'd like to think.)

I've gotten 4 of these massive Zucchini from my plants so far. I pick one and there's another to deal with a couple days later... Anyone need Zucchini?

I've already gotten a couple of white cucumbers from the plant on the right. A new cucumber is just starting (center of the photo). These little babies are wonderfully yummy!

I ran out of room in the back for another tomato plant, but had an extra seedling, so I stuck it in the pot on my front porch and it's outperformed all of the plants in the back by far.


So, this is what the backyard garden looked like when I got everything in the ground:

And this is the most recent. The strawberries seem to have shrunk... but the newly installed deer fence ought to remedy that! Check out those massive squash plants!

The tomatoes (to the right) have gone through a couple of trims from the deer as well, but overall they're doing well, now protected by their own deer fence! 

I really hate deer. In the context of them living too close to me.


PS: I had a birthday yesterday! Can you believe it? They happen every year! :) This is going to be a magical year, I tell ya!