why deer are not my friends.

Do you remember when I told you guys that I had a sort of peaky rose cutting and a healthy rose cutting? Each had two leaves? Yeah, those are the ones.

So guess who decided to visit right next to the doorstep?

Guess who it was who decided to visit, gasp, which rose? The sick one?

No, you can't bother with that-heck, it's a gianormous three feet away, that's too far to bother, but hey, that healthy one is right there next to the door, where people walk and everything.

Guess which rose is missing. And which one still exists.

Yeah, I'm ticked off. Really. Ticked. Off.

So yeah, I forgot to add the (apparently) third enemy of freshly planted cuttings. Deer.

Okay, now to distract you and myself from my maddening mishap, I'm going to post some photographs that I've taken recently.





Firstly, this is my first year to have been able to constantly go out to the garden and be able to get some greens for dinner, and cilantro for guacamole. Mmmm....

















This is also my first year for growing green onions and red lettuce. The green onions are amazingly easy to grow. Plus, they're cheap. How cheap? When you buy them from the store, and you use them, but still have just the bottoms left, DO NOT THROW THEM AWAY. I repeat, DO NOT THROW THEM AWAY.


Soak the bottoms in a glass of water for a couple of days, and you'll see roots begin to grow. Plant into dirt, leaving a bit of the stalk above ground. Water well. In a week or two, you should have enough tops to snip off with scissors for your salad or pizza or whatever you use green onions for! Plus, don't forget, if you don't trim off tops, and you let the 'green onions' get old, they will turn into regular onions, if you so desire. Because here's the shocking truth-green onions/scallions are just baby onions. There's nothing different about them!


Here's also a picture of my Hungarian yellow wax peppers-my first year for growing them-but not for growing peppers and tomatoes.
















Also, it is definitely not too late to start tomatoes for a later in the year crop. I wanted to make sure I had some stewing/slicing/large tomatoes, so this is a sprouted tray of mixed tomatoes: early girl, better boy, bigger boy, beefmaster.
























Also, I added trellising today, (made out of old grape vine canes and some twine) to my large patio pot of basil and one cherry tomato plant...and a stray cosmos that somehow found its way into there.






















Also, do you remember what I said about how roses love water? Well, here's a progress pic-you can't really see it in this picture, but over the last week, because of the amount of water its been receiving, this rose now has 7 rose buds that it did not have last week. Insane!!

And here's a picture of a very intensely busy bumblebee, going about the lavender.























Before I make this post too long, and before I sign off, I also want to put up a pic of my first broccoli head!














And my first chick peas-which, for the record, I grew straight out of a bag from the grocery store. Did you know that some people, for the intrigue and fun of it, will buy one of those mixed bean bags from the dried goods aisle of the grocery store, and plant the entire bags' worth, just to see all the neat beans that come up? Not a bad idea, if you ask me. :)


Okay, I'm going to sign off. What stuff have you tried to grow from the grocery store? Did any of it germinate? Did it grow? Was it a proper plant? Did it produce? Feel free to comment and share your stories.