Are you singing Tom Jones yet? You’re welcome. 🙂
On to the garden stuff – because there is something new!
A week ago Thursday, July 8, I had to go to Fredericton for a company meeting. Long and super hot, sunny day. I arrived home to find Grass Catchers (our landscapers) hard at work on expanding the garden bed on the hill.
It’s quite a bit bigger, as you can see by the tiny little spot at the top right corner that is the original bed and actually has stuff planted in it.
On the following Monday, July 12, we came home to trees in our back yard.
Which were planted this past Thursday, July 15, which I think was the hottest day of the summer so far, here in Saint John anyway. My jar of coconut oil, normally solid at room temperature, was liquid.
The end result:
Looks nice, don’t you think? As a matter of fact, the deer thought it looked good enough to eat…
The evergreens seem to be doing okay, but we’re not sure how many of the maples and oaks are going to survive. I took these pictures on Friday. I watered all of the new trees last night and they were looking about the same. Today they were nibbled back even more. Not a whole lot we can do though.
In other news…
We have potato blossoms!
We also have baby tomatoes, garlic flowers (pretty) and peas.
Right now you can almost see things growing. For a while there I thought my tomatoes were looking pretty spindly, but they’ve taken right off – some are still a bit on the small side, but that may have to do with them being later varieties. In any case, things are certainly looking much better than they were last year!
Some just for fun photos…
Your yard is looking wonderful! I am envious. Almost so much so that I hesitate to give you my suggestion for keeping the deer from eating your trees….. nah, I’m not that mean.
Get some Bounce dryer sheets, tear them into strips and tie the strips to the branches of your new trees. I know it sounds strange, and will look a little odd, but it works to keep them from eating things in my garden!
Thanks so much! Now that you say it of course, I remember reading that tip on your blog, but I had completely forgotten.