Back to the Garden

I'm so excited to finally have time in my garden again. I feel as if I totally neglected it last summer, and I'm getting a really late start this year.

Of course, I did get some help this year from the explosion of bunnies in our neighborhood.

I purchased several close-to-hopeless plants back in May and June from the clearance racks. I'd been able to nurse similar specimens back to health in the past. But I'd put time into the garden then.

The bunnies made quick work of my ground-level critter salad. I was so perturbed!!!

At the beginning of the summer, I had decided I wanted to devote a segment of the "upper deck" in our backyard to giant sunflowers. I always loved going east in search of miles and miles of sunflowers during August, but I've not been able to put much time into that the last couple of years. Naturally, I thought I could plant my own, not have to go anywhere other than my own backyard.

As I began leveling the first tier for a row of Mammoth sunflowers, I realized although young sunflowers follow the sun, once mature, they'd all face the fence. I wouldn't be able to snap the gorgeous photos I'd envisioned. My property faces the wrong direction!!!

I planted multiple individual seeds in yogurt containers, then transplanted the seedlings into the bricks lining our irrigation rocks. The bunnies ate them. I planted a second round. The bunnies ate them. I'm now on my third attempt, with barely enough season left for the seedlings to reach maturity. I haven't transplanted yet...

I'd strategically planted red sunflower seeds throughtout the garden back in May. Most became bunny food. But I have had one fully red sunflower so far this summer! It is located in the porch rail planter, where bunnies cannot reach!

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