The deer, rabbits and groundhog destroyed your food plants. A gardening class isn’t going to fix that and your thumb didn’t have a chance to be green.
It is war and I defeated the plant murderers by growing in containers on my deck and sprouting seeds under the grow lamp as earlier this year all the seeds were murdered by the invaders.
If you keep the raised beds, use row cover and/or net to keep the invaders out. For easy fertilizer I have a stack of Job’s stakes to put into the soil to feed the plants on a continual basis as the stakes slowly feed the plant.
I can’t do heavy manual work and can’t take much heat, so I cheat every way I can to make it easier.
Thank you Marcella. Even the plants they didn’t eat didn’t do well, hence the lack of a green thumb. :-)
I like the idea of fertilizer stakes and the row covers. I did buy grow lights but I started plants too early. I’ll start a bit later next year.
Yep, next year....sigh......
Marcella, I’m going to copy you and use Job’s stakes in my pots. Thanks.