Our Summer Garden and How We Keep the Deer Out

by Adina Johnson @ Simply Country Life

We decided to do a traditional row garden rather than raised beds this year to help manage the amount of water the garden gets. Our raised beds seemed to get over saturated when we had a lot of rain or extremely dry when we didn't causing our veggies to not do well. I still have a lot to learn when it comes to the soil.

our summer garden and how we keep the deer out, flowers, gardening, pest control, pets animals, raised garden beds

We did keep one 8'x4' raised bed and moved it behind our cabin, closer to the kitchen. We are using it for herbs, tomatoes and onions.

Sunflowers are my favorite flowers, so we plant a large section of them every year. This year we planted them along the outed edge of the garden along the rows of corn.

the sunflowers are just starting to bloom

up close

summer squash

zuchinni

ornamental pumpkins

ornamental pumpkin

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Jeanette S on Jun 25, 2014
Your place is OH SO BEAUTIFUL! I am about ready to move out of the city and into the country!

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- Adina Johnson @ Simply Country Life on Jun 25, 2014
  @Jeanette S you're not far from the country. We're about 2 1/2 hours from Atlanta. :)
  
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Sensible Gardening and Living on Jun 25, 2014
Glad you are having some success with your deer. Hope it lasts!

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- Adina Johnson @ Simply Country Life on Jun 26, 2014
  @Sensible Gardening and Living Thank you and I hope so too.
  
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