Deer damage, a wire tomato ladder twisted apart

 

Aside from eating plants, deer can mess up your things by getting silly antlers stuck in fencing and plant supports, then writhing free. Those ladders cost $14. Another thing deer do is yank pieces from shrubs or uproot plants from the ground, just for the sake of tasting them. When they don’t like what they’ve grabbed, they toss it aside. And as I wrote a while back, they rub on trees of a certain size, stripping off bark and breaking branches.

Here are the rest of the seeds I’ve ordered this year.

Notes: Chocolate Pear tomato seeds were a free gift two years ago. They were the only tomatoes that produced for me in the drought. They have a tart flavor, and are good added whole to sandwiches and soups.

Mealycup salvia (Victoria Blue) is not destroyed by slugs. Vinca (not the same plant as creeping periwinkle) looks a lot like impatiens, though flowers less prolifically. Deer won’t eat it.

Park seeds are more expensive, but they have the best selection of petunias.

Tithonia (Fiesta del Sol) is very attractive to monarch butterflies, which have taken a bad hit from last year’s weather.

Dara, a Queen Anne’s lace variety with red and pink colors, is too beautiful not to grow, but needs sprayed or netted against deer.

Browallia, Ridolfia, Talinum, and Standing Cypress are my plants to try for the first time this year. 

 

Seeds N Such

744 Old German tomato vegetable

755 Black Krim tomato vegetable

724 Chocolate Pear tomato vegetable

1200 Gazania annual

1391 Cherry Brandy rudbeckia perennial

1389 Goldstrum rudbeckia perennial

1453 Victoria Blue salvia annual

1340 Vinca annual

1226 Candy Mix zinnia annual

 

Park Seed

51432 Starship Deep Rose lobelia perennial

54155 Petchoa Calliburst Yellow annual

54140 Sweet Taffy Mix Wave petunia annual

54162 Moonlight petunia annual

54154 Superbissima petunia annual

01802 Salvia Blue Queen perennial

00024 Summer Berries achillea perennial

 

Scheepers Kitchen Seeds

7204 Black Ball Bachelor’s Buttons annual

8340 Balloon Flower perennial

7235 Browallia annual

7295 Chabaud Carnations annual

7360 Early Sunrise Coreopsis perennial

8290 Dara biennial

7500 Heliotrope annual

8715 Fiesta del Sol tithonia annual

8390 Double Rose Moss annual

8250 Nicotiana annual 

 

Select Seeds

S1746 Agastache Licorice White perennial 

S464OG Ridolfia Goldspray annual 

S1922 Snapdragon Copper Queen annual 

S1870 Snapdragon Madame Butterfly annual 

S522 Talinum Kingwood Gold annual 

S113 Standing Cypress annual 

S2011 Flowerburst Red Shades achillea perennial