Garden Blues

At the beginning of Spring our garden had great potential. But since planting We have come up against several problems.
The Goats and Horse:
                 They will eat anything they can get at. So I did my best to keep plants away from the goats.
               
Children Feeding the goats and or Horse:
                 I swear I have kicked out every child in the surrounding area.
                 The small kids are between the ages 1 and 5 so you can't be to mad most don't know better.
                 The bigger kids just pull out plants. And don't care.
                 Also their parents don't care.
                 And even a few adults have been by, but they mostly pick the fruit.

Rabbits: Seriously this morning I found them munching on the garden.

Heat: It has just been really hot!

So far we have lost:
2 watermelon
3 squash
1 summer squash
4 red cabbage
a row of green onions
handful of carrots


And all the picking of the leaves had slowed the production of fruit from the plants.  I have not even gotten any zucchini yet! It's not like my neighbors haven't been kicking out kids either. Thinking about replacing it all with thorny Berries! Or electrifying a fence. Or creating a series of booby traps...

Anyways, next year the garden will be different. We may only do a porch garden.