Cooking & Baking

wow, at least you have cucumbers, squash, beans and peppers. I don't have anything yet except lettuce and broccoli rabe. We had a long, cool spring where if you put a tomato plant or pepper out at those temperatures, it would delay getting fruit. None of my gardeners have any, either. They have big, bushy plants but no fruit on them.

I might have had some squash plants, but they, too, were chewed up. I am hoping they recover with the netting.

A lot of my plantings are to enhance the property, but how beautiful is it when it has black netting all over it or is blocked some other way?

Oh, and get this! I have a two-level terrace which goes up a mountain. The first level is 9' high. Can you believe the deer got up there and tore out a tomato plant? Didn't eat it, just tore it out of its pot. I blocked entry off with a screen and a metal railing.

Plus they did the same with my beets. Tore them all out and left them without water or soil. I rescued them, but I'm sure it didn't do any good.

I'm so sorry about your corn. Corn is so good when its fresh.