Last year our garden was wildly successful.  This year it is just wild.  A dry June was followed by 11 days without electricity- thus 11 days without an electric fence- which took the deer 8 days to figure out.  Plastic bags and dryer sheets did not keep them away, but chunks of scattered Irish Spring did.  June was wetter than wet- and while we needed the rain- the weeds did not. Day after day was too much for our little tiller- so up they grew, along with the garden.  I thought gardens were supposed to be relaxing, not a source of stress?  This year it is both.

Stressful, relaxing, and tasty.  And still so worth it.