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I have now reached the Bill Murray from Caddyshack phase of my gardening.

I've gone from zero to 11 rather quickly.

As you can see, the little purple guys, I forget what they're called.

Let's see what we can find out together.

Let's see.

These are proven winners.

Rockin', I don't know what the hell that's supposed to be.

Well, anyway, Rockin', is that what it says?

Rockin'?

Well, I don't think I'm going to say that word.

Anyhow, some bugs got to this guy and deer got to him.

Him.

They're supposed to be deer proof.

Him and him.

So what I did is I rearranged things.

They really don't like the marigolds.

That I can definitely see.

So I put some marigolds to guard them.

While I was down buying marigolds, I saw this.

I have no idea what the hell this is, but it looks cool.

And I got these guys.

Now you can see they knolled on him.

They knolled him down to nothing.

They knolled him back, but they left the other guys alone.

And you can see there's some footprints.

I actually, I did some bunch of stuff here today, but

You can tell they've come down this way and started eating.

So what I did, as you can see here, I now have a chicken wire enclosure.

I don't know how well you can see this, but anyway.

So this, it goes all, what I did is I ran it right along the edge, as you can see here.

of this little stone doohickey thing,

which I'm still not sold on,

but for this year they're going to stay.

So it goes along here, all along this edge, then around to that edge, then down to here.

Now I still haven't gotten rid of this thing.

Since it's dying off, I won't feel so bad getting rid of it.

What I'm going to do is I'm going to put some boxwoods in here.

I'm told that boxwoods are really good deer preventers.

So as this fence stops here, I can put some boxwoods.

That means the only way they're going to be ready to eat is to come up this way

against this wall,

which is about 24 inches.

And none of the deer are that tall.

They could come up here and probably reach this first row,

but they don't like these guys either.

And they definitely don't like these guys.

I'm actually kind of regretting

not just using these things, the dusty Hitlers.

And I think they look neat.

And they're pretty... I mean, they've grown twice their size already.

So now next year.

But anyway, it'll be difficult for them.

And they don't like walking on these stones.

I've seen them avoid this deck, this area here, as you can see.

And it goes around.

I've never seen them walk on this.

They always avoid it.

So I'm...

I'm thinking kind of I'm close.

I'm close to keeping the deer out.

Now, this is not a lot of expense.

I think the chicken wire is $50 and the post or 10 of them, $50.

So I got about $100 in that.

If this does in fact work,

then the plan next year will be,

let's assume that all these plants actually live to,

September is kind of my cutoff date.

If they make it to September, then I've got a green enough thumb to make this work.

So if that works,

then I'm either going to find some sort of vine to grow on this,

and I'll replace this chicken wire with some sort of like lattice thing for

something to grow on,

and I'll get rid of these stones.

Or...

Maybe line this with some sort of shrubbery that the deer don't like,

and I can have the flowers here.

So something like that.

You know, I thought about honeysuckle, but I don't think this gets enough sun for honeysuckle.

And I don't think this area really grows a lot of honeysuckle.

I see it around, but I don't know.

It'd be nice, though.

Something with flowers would be cool.

So I don't know what kind of vines do that,

but grow up and,

you know,

maybe stay green,

come back every year.

Somebody knows that would be very helpful.

Um,

but it could,

you know,

just kind of carve out an area and just put some shrubbery in there and get rid of

the stones,

which again,

I'm kind of torn on,

not really sure.

You know, they look neat with the moss and all that, but you know, they're just really cheap.

You know, I mean, that's, these are just concrete.

They, you know, they pour into the little molds and

I see them all over the place, though.

And they're very popular at Home Depot and Lowe's.

They got mountains of the damn thing.

So I don't know.

You know, it's one of those things.

My tastes are not everybody's taste.

In other words, my tastes are kind of poor.

Well, pray for my purple guys.

Let's see if they come back to life.

I put some soil down.

It's poured rain, so they've got to be pretty good.

But the weather's going to be scorching the next week.

I mean, it's 96, 97.

It's going to be miserable.

So we'll find out.

My green thummery will be tested sorely.

But it's amazing.

Even though it rained so hard, look how dry it is already.

So anyway, we'll find out.

There's a quick update on the garden.

See you next time.