Breakfast Sunday 13 July 2025

[Emile]

Black coffee now ☕, later two eggs over easy, bacon, hash brown patty and toast.

[gademocrat7]

1. Coffee with cream, now

Muenster cheese toast with Gala apple slices, later.




GoodMorning🤗

[NJCher]

2. Cold decaf coffee

Blueberries with waffles. Blueberry syrup, too.

Turkey bacon.

The deer devastated my plantings while I was away for a union meeting. Everything was so pretty and now it’s just a chewed up mess.

I ordered netting and it arrived yesterday so I will put it around today.

All my plants had been sprayed with Repels It, too.

One thing about bring a fanatical gardener is that I don’t even have to wait for it to grow out. I have dozens of plants waiting in the greenhouses to go in. I put so many in last night that I had a hand cramp.

Today I’m going to order those ultrasonic devices.

[Emile]

3. All my sweet corn is already destroyed. I

gave up on trying to save what's left and mowed over that sweet corn patch. Something ate the corn stalks not too long after they sprouted. The squirrels are ignoring all the rubber snakes in my two peach trees and stripping almost every peach. We have managed to get maybe a bushel of peaches. But, my cages I made to protect my new strawberry plants seem to be working great. Tomato plants are loaded, but the only ones that are starting to ripen are on a grape Tomato plant. We have an abundance of cucumbers, squash, green beans and bell peppers. Melons are looking good, but it will be awhile before they're ready.

[NJCher]

4. it's a rougher year than usual for pests, I think, anyway

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.