Garden Disaster

Early this morning as we pulled down the driveway, we pass one of our garden plots. Instead of gazing upon lush heads of cabbage and rows of bush beans, a strange sight appeared. The plants were all gone - I take that back there were still stubs sticking out of the ground as proof that the plants had once been there. 30 head of cabbage and six rows of beans completely gone! Of course we will have rabbits peruse the garden, a woodchuck or some turkeys will nibble, a deer or two in the corn - but that is part of living in the country. In three years we have never had a problem with deer - UNTIL NOW. It seems that in one night they were able to gorge themselves and completely wipe out the lower garden plot. An utter flippin' catastrophe. This puts a serious spin on our food supply and a goodbye to a majority of our canning efforts from our harvest for the season, because now the harvest won't be coming. This is a major disappointment as we are already having a strange growing season here. I am going to see if we can try to get another planting into the ground in hopes of a fall harvest.