August 27…I’m a sucker for any ‘gardening trick’. Here I’m holding up a dried banana peel. It’s supposed to give your transplant a shot of something (potassium?) when the roots reach down to it (assuming you put it in the hole before the plant goes in.)
August 27…The lettuce transplants on the upper left have the dried banana peel under them. On the lower right, no banana peel.
PVC water grid in place, deer netting over the top, we will see what happens. I forgot to mention the heaps of fresh crab shell that were buried here last week.
October 5…This is what the lettuce looks like 5 weeks later. Can you tell where the banana peels are buried? I can’t.
October 5…Just to use the rest of the bed, I shook some dried kale branches in this area. Ha-ha…there must have been some seeds that dropped out.
August 20…This is WHY we are planting in this bed already. The oh-so-cute deer chomped our beautiful broccoli plants when we forgot to re-net it after burying crab shell in one end.
The new fawn follows Mom to the bird feeders every evening.
Adventures in Natural Beekeeping 
One day I hope to be organised enough to have lettuce at this time of the year 🙂
Yes, well it only took us about 30 years, so good luck! 😀
Bambi is so cute but what a lot of work they cause you having to net your vegetables. It puts the damage caterpillars cause into the shade. Amelia
Bambi and Mom were out in the garden this evening as I was planting more lettuce, beets, and turnips. I just read up a little on turnips. It sounds as if they are as good for you as beets in lowering blood pressure at least temporarily. And if they start flowering in January or February, the bees will benefit too.
The deer are patient with me. They just hang around the area until I’m done planting before they meander back in to the garden area. Despite my best netting efforts they still get underneath to trim back my veggies. 😦