how does your....

[growalot]

Garden grow...late start for mine but looking good tomatoes oon vines...flowers on squash and melons..tons of summer squash already and peppers and okra growing well along with every thing else.... This is just part of it...batteries died

[132 eight pointer]

Cucumbers,summer squash,sunflowers and green tomatoes in my small garden.

[adkbuck]

Nice looking garden growalot.  We had a late start but everything is growing well.  Photos of main garden, garlic patch, potato patch, melon/winter squash /pumpkin patch (under black plastic mulch)  and some recent planted Christmas tree seedlings.   Just planted some fall crops. 

 

 

[Doc]

I don't know whether I just can't see it or what, but how are you people getting away without electric fencing? If I didn't have my welded wire fencing and the top and bottom strands of electric fence, I just simply would not have a garden left. Between the deer, rabbits, and woodchucks, that thing would be a bare stretch of dirt overnight without it.

[growalot]

Ab ...nice garden!

 

Doc....most of mine is fenced the sweet corn..cukes...some melons...and pumpkins are not.....scare crow...though after last planting of fall peas and beans...I forgot to put scare crow back up...birds ate every pea that sprouted @!$!&! ...beans were 4 in. tall last night....we'll see this a.m.

I learned growing  tomato and pole beans on rebar mesh.....then planting other crops between the rows of mesh deter deer and some rabbits from getting those crops

[adkbuck]

Thanks, growalot,

 

Doc, we grow most of the things the critters would hit inside a 3 foot rabbit fence.  Outside the fence, They seem to leave the garlic, potatoes and winter squash alone.  I did get hit by something in the melon patch which wiped out one hill of cantaloupe.  I'm pretty sure it was voles.  As the other melon plants have gotten larger they seem to get left alone.   Since I don't grow sweet corn I don't pull in any coons which stay out in the cornfields.   The deer seem to happy enough with the alfalfa and corn fields that they leave the garden alone.

 

I replanted the cantaloupe hill which was destroyed with a fast growing small melon (Honey Rock) and surrounded the young plants with mouse traps to deter the voles.   Caught a couple of voles but so far no more damage.

 

 

Edited July 26, 2014 by adkbuck

[Doc]

I used to get so discouraged having the critters harvest stuff out of my garden one or two days before I intended to. Corn was an absolute loser. The coons polished that off long before it was ready to pick. Beans, swiss chard, in fact any leaf crop would be chonked down completely all in one night. Rabbits would squeeze through the welded wire fence, deer would jump over it, and woodchucks would dig under it. Everybody got to enjoy my garden except the wife and me.

 

That's when I ornery and mean and strung the wire.....one strand about 3" off the ground, and another strand all around the top, 6" above the welded wire fencing. Absolutely no problem ever since. Now it's just me and the bugs that get the harvest.

[growalot]

Old Native Americana trick to help save corn harvests....they would line the sides of corn with their pumpkin and winter squash plants...The other critters did not care for the prickly leafs so they act as a barrier..I always plant my vines near at least one side of my corn...

[dbHunterNY]

Did everything on pots on the back deck this year. As I've been really busy. Sounds about like yours. No zucchini but flowered.