Garden report

My garden box is in peak production right now.  We have been harvesting lots of salad greens, as well as kale and snow peas.

Yesterday, I cut the first artichoke of the season, and I pulled my elephant garlic.

But at the same time, I have noticed a deer has discovered my garden box.  On the first visit, it ate a little kale.  On the second visit, it ate a few bites of snow peas.  But last night, it got greedy and munched all across the top of my snow peas, ate more kale, and started in on the rainbow chard.

So, armed with 25-feet of chicken wire and 4 fence posts, this afternoon, I have (hopefully) deer-proofed the garden box.  Unfortunately, I will have to unroll the fence in order to harvest much of anything.  I hope the deer is surprised when it arrives for its next snack.  There is plenty of native vegetation for it to eat.

The garden box yesterday, in the free-lunch mode

The garden box this afternoon, wearing its "deer-proof" fence

A week with family

Visiting us is always about food and the sea.  Last week was no exception.

The black-sand beach in Yachats.

Three generations: Bori, Marley, and Rick

Dungeness crab.

Marley with crab "book ends"

Black rockfish.

Marley with rockfish "bookends"

Buckets of blueberries.

Part of the 42 pounds of blueberries we picked