Here are some of the deer that have been coming down from the nearby mountains to feed on my front yard rose garden. This one is helping itself to my nextdoor neighbor's holly topiary.
The drought is serious, folks. These animals, and many more like them, are really feeling the brunt of it. They can have my roses until the rain returns.
Luckily, the bulk of my garden is behind a tall wall in the backyard, let's see how it's faring this week.
Tomatoes! I'm loving my tomato plants this year. Here, the hanging cherry tomatoes are reddening up. My son and I sampled but they're a bit tart at a redder color than this so we'll let them ripening for quite some time before harvesting. There are a ton of them on the basket.
That's in contrast to last year where I could count my entire tomato harvest on one hand. This hybrid is giving the cherry tomatoes a run in the numbers game and the big ones are the size of a baseball.
I was sweating a little over the heirloom plant but it's getting some nice fruit on it too, now.
In our citrus grove, we've got Myer lemons on the branches...
...more fruit on our Cara Cara orange...
...and a few late blooming Cara Cara flowers, too.
I had a micro-sprinkler clog and I think it affected our corn adversely. I replaced it but I don't know how this will do. In this drought-affected garden, however, it's sink or swim. We'll see if we can get anything edible out of it.
Darryl
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