Berries--or not

I had beautiful green berries on my blueberry bushes on day & the next day -- nothing! Who eats green berries??? I put netting around the blackberry bush. I also put some rodent repellant. I hope that works.
Rain would probably improve my garden. My father has been getting broccoli since the end of June, I think. I got nothin'.
I would like to laud the benefits of compost, however. I have one of those tumblers, which, if you want compost, you have to stop using and let it sit for a year. I put it in the rock bed before I put the topsoil. I didn't have enough for the whole bed, but the flowers that were planted over the compost are much fuller than the flowers that just had topsoil. Compost for all!!

damn critters....

Years ago, I used to make fun of my grandfather (but never to his face. He was not that sort of man) because he put nets all over his berry bushes. I figured that how many could they take? There's always enough to share.

But when I have just invested lots of money on berry bushes, I want to protect my harvest....so I took extra netting from my father's house and wrapped up my bushes. Either the critters will consider it a challenge and eat the rest of them (and get a belly ache b/c they aren't even blue yet) or I will wake up tomorrow to find trapped birds and chipmunks.

On the plus side, I already ate three cherry tomatoes.

ARGH!!!!

Fantastic detailed post about my garden and the stupid blogger/computer made it go away without posting. Frustrated!!!! May possibly take it out on various inanimate objects later.