We enjoyed gardening at Laurelledge--both vegetable and floral. Soon after viewing our first garden in production, we were given a sign which read, "Life began in a garden."
Most of the time our gardens flourished. Sometimes we had to irrigate during dryer seasons. We learned to mulch the soil around the plants and conserve moisture. We grew with our gardening and enjoyed the produce and the blossoms.
On several occasions we discovered that the deer also enjoyed the fruits of our labors. Apparently the gladiola blossoms were quite tasty because there were times when those blossoms were nibbled down to a nubbin by the deer. They also ate the buds of broccoli which we had hoped to enjoy at our table
One summer we had a particularly fine patch of beans. They were ready to be harvested and the day we went into the garden to pick those beans the deer had "picked" them. Not only were the pods gone; the deer had eaten all of the plants down to the bare ground.
There was nothing we could do except be philosophical about it all. After all, the deer were there long before we arrived to start our gardening and they are no doubt still there long after we have moved from Laurelledge.
We did enjoy seeing the deer from time to time but we wished they had been less consuming of the fruits of our labors.
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I also remember the herd of up to a dozen deer keeping the grass beat down under the early apple tree (the one that was off by itself) in their quest to eat all the fruit!
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