2025 09 10 - After two weeks gone

Fall blooms

The season is winding down and we have been gone for about two weeks.

Plenty of flowers for the bees. In the front are some 'weeds' that I transplanted last year that the bees really love. In the background are a few of the sunflowers that the deer did not chew off.

We did throw away a lot of veggies. 1 foot plus squash and zucchini. Bags of pole beans.

I was able to find some more sweet corn, I was pretty much picking all of it as we were likely going to be gone again and now that the squirrels have gotten a taste of the corn they are all over it. The tomatoes seemed to do OK, there were not any on the ground so it was just an issue of the ones that had gotten so big they had split.

I have no real focus or plan on my garden. I just do whatever 'squirrel' I want to chase today. So for a couple of days I focused on weeding the raspberries, something I had not done yet this year. Next to one patch are my garlic chives which spread. So I took the time to transplant the chives from the raspberries to an area where I have been trying to get flowers to grow the last couple of years. It doesn't look like the chives have died, but they don't seem to be thriving either. It is under a maple tree so the tree sucks a lot of water.

Missing leaves on the summer squash.

We did notice that leaves were gone from the summer squash. I had put up the five foot fence this spring and it seemed to keep the deer out for the summer. Now they have jumped it and started with the squash. At this point they had not bothered the green beans or sunflowers, but they did later.