Tomatoes, Peppers, Cilantro, Parsley, and Basil

Tomatoes, Peppers, Cilantro, Parsley, and Basil, a photo by JLPerry711 on Flickr.

Our garden has been changing quite a bit lately!  Jason and I bought plants from a local nursery, and soaker hoses from a local hardware store to get things going.  There is a spicket near by so we ran a regular hose to our two garden plots, then attached a splitter and ran a soaker hose up and down each garden plot.  We have already found this to be extremely convenient!!!  Then we planted most of our plants: various types of tomatoes, peppers, and pole beans, also marigolds and herbs (basil, cilantro, dill, parsley) to keep away the bad bugs!  This plot has been planted over a week and all is well so far!


I do have one little thing that I didn't like...


While Jason and I were at the hardware store for the soaker hoses, we originally wanted to get fencing too.  After talking with an employee who is also a gardener he recommended saving the money of fencing until we knew we were having pests in the garden.  He also gave us an organic spray to keep way rabbits and deer and other animals.  He gave it to us, for free!  Both thought - Great!!  Didn't read the labels or directions or anything, because we didn't have to pay for it!


So then we've planted the garden and I go to use the spray, I attach the spray nozel and read the directions (note: not the ingredients) and start spraying away!  Turns out that the spray was a mixture of bovine blood and water!! It smelled horrid, and practically made me sick to my stomach!  Then while it may keep away rabbits and deer, it certainly was attracting our black lab, Kona, it was all we could do to keep him from eating our new plants which had a nice dressing of bovine blood!  Then the nozel leaked all over my hands and had blood stains on my skin!  Like I was a pig murderer!!!  


I was highly traumatized.  


AND I will forever read the ingredients on EVERYTHING (because I really only read food labels...)