Yes, Deer.

Saw some hoof prints this morning left by deer. I haven't planted anything yet!

I am the strawman.

Seeds are all in their little pellets, only a few beans have peaked out of the soil.

Bought four bails of straw and mulched the walkways and entrance. Added some extra topsoil.

I still need to get rid of some roots and weeds in the quadrants. Too many roots.

PH balancing and indoor sowing.

Rained a bit today. Bought a PH and Fertilizer testing kit. I tested the garden soil and it read around 5.5 to 6, I may have to add some gypsum... maybe some gypsies, too.

The fertilizer test is pretty ideal, which is cool.

Bought some seed kits and started sowing pumpkin, corn, bush bean, and sunflower seeds.

I'm still not exactly sure what I'm going to grow in each quadrant, mostly just improvising here.

Seeds sowed at 9:30 p.m.

• "Mammoth" Organic Sunflowers
• "Jack 'O Lantern" Pumpkins
• Blue Lake 274 Bush Beans
• "Morning Star" Sweet Corn

And sow it begins...

You'll be getting a lot of irritating puns from me.

Removed all weeds, grass, sticks, etc. and formed a rectangular plot that is about 18'x24'. Then I took a hoe and hand-tilled the dirt, added fertilizer, manure, and hummus compost.

The large rectangle is divided into four quadrants with a straw mulched walkway that forms a 'crossroads' in between them.

Outside the rectangle, there are two rows of pumpkin mounds (15 mounds total).