Hungry Groundhogs

We had been lucky so far this season - only the slugs and a few squash pests causing very minimal damage (if you could call it damage at all).  Saturday morning we stopped at the garden on our way to visit friends with the intent to pick some lettuce to bring with us.  Well, it appears that since Tuesday the groundhogs were getting into their salad mode and pretty much took care of our lettuce for us.

They also added 2 of our 3 cabbage plants to the mix and sampled some of our chard and dill.  We did get a couple of nice yellow squashes and everything else is looking good.  Tried to patch up one of the most obvious holes in our poor fence.  Will be making a trip over today to cover some of the most tempting plants and patch up any other fence holes.  Hopefully we don't have a repeat of last year's  massacre where the groundhogs wiped out all of our Cabbage, Brussels Sprouts, and Kale.

Two destroyed cabbages in the lower left among the weeds.

So far the beans are doing well.

Zucchinis are coming along nicely.

More Oregano than we can ever use...

The Beginning...

Finally.  At last.  A blog entry.  

I set this blog up a few weeks ago with the intention of keeping a running record of our garden through the growing season.  Well the garden is growing and I have been taking photos on almost every visit we have made to the garden.  I will quickly post a few pictures from yesterday, and hopefully catch up with some of the best of the last few months to give an idea of how things have progressed so far. 

 The front plot looking across the meadow and the Presumpscot River.

 Globe Thistle and Bee Balm

 Pole Beans and Chard

 Peppers, Basil, and Parsley

 

 Crook Neck yellow squash.

Carrots.  We planted a month ago and the next day was the first of 3 days of rain, 7-8 inches total.  3 weeks later we had 7 carrots growing.  Replanted last weekend and they are growing now.

Garlic and onions.  Onions are always our best crop.  Just plant, weed occasionally, and water.  Last year we harvested 40 pounds that lasted us a good part of the winter.

That's our garden with the Rhubarb in the front corner.

(Thanks to LBM for the inspiration to try blogging.)