Garden at the End of April

The Wisteria is blooming and the fragrance permeates the back yard. The Azaleas are beautiful this year but since they have been neglected we have had to prune most of them back and will hope for more beauty and health from them next year. The woman who owned this house was an azalea nut!!! We have so many azaleas that I stopped counting at 100.


As this is our first Vegetable garden we are documenting it by taking pictures and keeping this written record. We have had a nice rainy spring and the plants have really taken off. We just have to protect them from all the little and big critters.
The Fuji apple blossoms are just about done and falling off, I hope the bees have completed their pollinating!!! The arugula is so tender and tasty we have some everyday. Tonight we will have it with cherry tomatoes and fresh mozzarella-drizzled with Italian olive oil.

Wild Tails: 3 Does

Last evening Ron and I went down to the garden to close up the raised beds and what to our wondering eyes did appear- but 3 beautiful does. They were not at all afraid of us -they seemed to have checked us out - and deciding we were no threat, they just kept on munching the leaves, grass, and plants, of our neighbors yard. The mother is the ring leader, she came right up to the fence and showed those big brown doe eyes to us while she wiggled her big ears. At one point I thought she was just going to jump right over the fence and into our yard -like 5 feet from us. Ron and I stood there watching them and talking to them for at least 5 minutes-they did not talk back –of course. They were on their way home, back into the woods.
This is why we have our raised vegetable beds covered with mesh and row cover. If we did not it would be a fabulous all you can eat salad buffet for the 3 does.
Hoping to post a picture of the 3 does. But -it might not happen as we are putting up an 8 foot deer fence this weekend.