Visitors In Our Back Yard

Visitors In Our Back Yard

Last summer we had a crop of corn in the field behind our home. There is a little piece of woods beyond that and there are deer who reside there. Occasionally they come out to look for some leftover corn laying in the field. Today there were nine deer right out of our back window. 

My husband said they are just about like pets. Only thing they run away when they see you. I guess they have to eat too! Of course, there are an abundance of them here in Michigan.

More Backyard Visitors

More Backyard Visitors

Lately I have noticed something has been eating the green beans in our garden out back.  We have a corn field (10 acres) around our house so there is plenty of corn to eat but I guess the deer that live around here want some green beans too.
They must want a variety of veggies in their diet, ha, ha.

My husband planted green beans twice, at different times.  We did get about three pickings from the first plantings.  There were lots of the plants eaten though.

Hubby then planted another four rows of green beans.  Well, once they were growing nicely, somebody thought they would be nice and tasty too and ate the whole four rows.

Daughter K. went out to look if we had any summer squash today and noticed that some of the corn was trampled down and there were a lot of deer tracks around the bean plants.  Thank goodness they did leave some for us!

We looked out back today and saw this little guy looking around.   I'm glad he doesn't like onions or squash anyways..........

Last year we planted a bunch of tomato plants and guess what..........something ate those too!  Now we plant them in front of our house.  So far, so good for them.

A Tomato Plant Eater?

A Tomato Plant Eater?

Going For A Little Walk

Getting Away

Yea, I'm Looking At You (dear)!


We live in a little town and there is a very tiny woods behind our house.   We've lived here for 18 years and my husband plants a garden in the back.  It's rather sandy ground but we can grow tomatoes, summer squash, onions and cucumbers.  That's about all that grows.  I'm surprised we can grow onions because no other vegetable that grows beneath the ground grows well in the soil.

Last year my husband planted about 30 tomato plants as usual.  I always can tomatoes for use in chili and goulash.  The next morning he went to look at the garden and something had chewed or ate off all the plants.  We had never had a problem before all those years till last year.  It must have been deer or rabbits.  I guess they got really hungry!

This cute little guy was behind our house the other day.  He was all alone and my son took some pictures before he noticed him and ran away.  Maybe he was looking for some tomato plants to eat.  Guess what!  My husband planted them by our house this year.