This has been quite a summer! Too cold to start, then to hot to go outside - sheesh! My dahlias are confused, the ones I didn't dig and divide are about 3 1/2 feet tall with some flowers. This is a pretty decent size. The ones we dug and cut up to share, some are only about 2 feet tall, some with buds, others still, hopefully, contemplating putting out some flowers. Then I have a few that were planted really late, like in mid July, that I am praying will grow big enough to have at least one flower.
In mid July, I used light deer fencing to enclose some tender new white paper bark birch trees cuz a couple had their tops nibbled off by my cute four-footed friends. Happy to report no further destruction there. There is also some dahlias inside that fence of the late planted kind. Deer don't like dahlias anyway.
So, encouraged by this, we built more fence in hopes of deterring deer from the blueberries and raspberries. We used both heavy and light so-called "deer fencing". This was a couple weeks ago, and last night there must have been a midnight snack attack, part of the light fencing was ripped and lots of blueberries missing. All we can do is wait for the green ones to ripen ~~~ as for the raspberries, they seem to eat a lot of leaves on the new shoots. Kinda wierd to me, there are prickles on the bottoms of the leaves - can't be comfortable to eat, must be very tasty I guess.
Last week I pulled the old pea vines, so done and ugly, and threw them into the compost pile. My grandson Colin helped me plant more pea seeds - hope is eternal you know!! Leftover seeds, just might sprout.
Alexa, cute Wabbits! We have wild ones here too, but as long as we have been gardening here, they have never eaten anything (knock on my hard head as if it were wood) that we could tell out of our veggie gardens. Our kitty caught one a couple weeks ago and brought it home proudly - it was bigger than her head.
The following posts show some pix.