From right to left - 20 organic yukon gold potatoes, 5 dz red and 5 dz white onions, 36 heritage tomato plants (plums, beefsteak, cheery, bonnies), 36 lavendar plants, 48 peppers (jalapeno, shepherd and green), 12 artichokes, 48 leeks, 48 brussel sprouts, 24 green beans, 24 sweet peas, 3 rows of swiss chard, 4 rows of bulls blood beets, 4 rows of kale, 4 rows of heritage carrots, 3 rows of spinach, two rows of mesclun mix, 16 rows of sweet corn, 16 sunflowers, 24 english cucumbers, 6 butternut squash and 6 acorn squash, 24 marigolds and 600 garlic.
It's starting to fill in but I caught the first deer in the garden last night so I will have to step up my deterrent measures.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I once had a problem with the neighbour's large labrador using my yard as it toilet. It was a big lolliping dog that would not stay in its own yard. It used to try to rape anyone wslking down the downward sloping garden path to my door by jumping up against their back ready to start humping the moment you bent under the weight. Its droppings were the size of the large cans of dog food. I think it must have consumed one a day. In the end I just baked it some cookies. It loved them until it got to the centre of hot chilis. Its howls and scurry for its water bowl were painful to hear but I never had problem again.
FrayedBear
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June 17, 2018
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Of course if you also want to stun your visitor in order to drop it in the pot, the old gypsy method for chickens was alcohol laced corn....
@FrayedBear They use the corn laced with cheap vodka trick on the feral chickens that roamed the grounds of the hotel we lived beside in Bermuda, it was pretty effective but not as effective as our Bouvier. The groundskeeper would bring her treats for doing his job for him. After the first year we never saw a feral chicken but apparently they are all back now. Funny as heck watching the drunk chickens try to run away from the groundskeeper chasing them with a big gunny sack.
@Surfpirate Knew a chap who had a mate whose cat used to get high as a kite in the small enclosed balcony they apparently puffed their joints and cones in. He thought it funny, I thought it cruelty to the cat.
What a wonderful garden patch! It all sounds so delicious!
JenBeberstein
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June 16, 2018
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That is really great 
and it looks beautiful!
SkotlandSkye
Level 8
June 16, 2018
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Wow! very impressive, and a beautiful property!
CaroleKay
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June 16, 2018
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Thanks, I always buy with a view of the water, I don't need to be on it but I need to be able to see it. We are on a large island in the middle of the St. Lawrence River so the front of the house has a river view.
Wow! I hope everything goes to plan. There's a feast waiting to appear there.
Ellatynemouth
Level 8
June 16, 2018
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Fingers crossed and no prayers sent. 
Do you have a plan for preseving them all? Fruit stand? Extra for the critters?
Spinliesel
Level 9
June 16, 2018
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I try to be a little food self sufficient, obviously not enough there for two people to get through the winter on but it's a good start. We will use up 300 of the garlic for personal use and I will need another 100 for next seasons crop, the rest I will give to friends and family so they don't have to eat that horrible China garlic that is not worth eating. The rest I will share as I can and dry to preserve. If I can get enough romas I will can a few dozen mason jars worth of pasta sauce and I have plans for a root cellar using the sandbag construction system that Nadir Khalili pioneered.
Chinese garlic is appalling!
@Ellatynemouth I don't even want to guess what they grow it in but I am sure you don't want to put it in your mouth.
Wow!!!
bigpawbullets
Level 9
June 16, 2018
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I was thinking about putting some grape vines in the back section but something tells me that they would just be very expensive deer feed.
During the Texas drought in 2011, my garden was a little green oasis in a sea of brown and I had deer problems. A fence didn't work. So I build a second fence around the outside of the first one. If the deer tried to leap over, they'd jump right into that second fence. And I scattered a lot of old wire and posts and junk around both sides of the fences kinda like Normandy beach invasion barriers. That's what it took to defeat the deer that year. With all of your green it seems like they'd have plenty to eat. I guess you grow tasty veggies!!
farmboy2017
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June 16, 2018
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Last year they ate all of my beets but 3, 4 whole rows and the next night they came back and ate the final 3 survivors. I was so annoyed I covered my beets with chicken wire this year. I am thinking about getting a paint ball gun just to drive them off but I feel bad for them because I feed the birds in the winter and leave out a little extra for the deer too. Maybe I just need to take up hunting again.
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