Someone ruined my garden. :(

[Nyboy]

add ethylene glycol ( known as car water anti- freeze is nice and sweet and effective on all sized dogs) as a lethal deterant.

Wow anti freeze is a cruel way to go. Not dogs fault the owners are the ones who should be punished.

 

[Carol Dee]

Wow anti freeze is a cruel way to go. Not dogs fault the owners are the ones who should be punished.

I agree, and an innocent animal that slipped out for the 1st time could be the one to drink it.

 

[lesa]

I really admire you gardeners who plant without a fence...I just am not that optimistic! If I couldn't/didn't have a fence I wouldn't have a garden! So sorry to hear of that destruction...Glad you found a few plants to feel hopeful about! I will never forget the day I found my first beehive knocked over. The large stick that the idiots used to topple it was laying on the ground near it. I never really knew that you could "see red". But, you can! I ran up to the house to get Dh and I swear I don't even remember doing it! I spent a lot of time hoping those bees really went after them... The bees are now in a fenced in area.

 

[Nyboy]

Still time to plant a fall garden

 

[AMKuska]

Thanks you guys.

No it isn't fenced. Its in my side yard. The chickens and the dogs wreaked so much havoc the last two years I decided to put the garden outside the fence. That worked well up to now. DH is going to put up a nice fence for me next year. In the mean time I did my best to prop them back up, so we'll see!

 

[digitS']

Water will help them heal. If it was earlier in the season, I'd say fertilizer, too.

Here is a memory of losing it all about now, as we move into late August.

I don't really remember my growing season frost dates when I lived several hundred feet higher. Around here where I am now, there was one year with a frost in August.

It wasn't a hard frost but it caught me by surprise and I felt lucky that it only killed some cucumber leaves and such. I went around and showed some folks a leaf and laughed about how it was so minor.

I wasn't laughing long. The cool weather continued and everything stopped growing during the week or so that was left to the season. I felt cheated! But ... I knew there would be another year.

One thing that gets me through problems is not only my years of gardening but the many things that I grow. Usually, something will find the conditions to its liking.

@Hal suggested what I'm using as a signature this week . There is another diversity advantage I'm blessed with - having gardens in more than one location. Some folks would think that is a terrible bother but it gets me some more "depth to the bench."

It's all pretty darned exposed to whatever wants to come at it but distance makes for differences. Let's stretch that a bit ... it's true here on TEG, too . Talking about our successes and failures helps me gain some balance, be a better gardener and stay optimistic - just as @baymule says.

Steve