Backyard Buffet

Yup! Apple leaves are good! Stems, not so much so.

I'm learning what deer like to eat. Asters and sedum from the front yard and apples from across the street. Also, in a pinch and to keep their ribs from absolutely coming right out of their hide, they will eat sunflower leaves and anything that grows and will hold still long enough for them to nip it off.

But my back yard, where plants for people-food grow, they've left alone. Until last week.

So, for my information, it's bushes on the buffet--they love bushes: Apple bushes (the columnar trees are only five feet tall), Aronia bushes(berries as well), Currant bushes, Blueberry bushes, Eggplant bushes, bush green beans, Tomato bushes.

So that's what Life in a New Land is teaching me this week. The deer have returned to munch more apple leaves and grab the green tomatoes. That's what we all do when we find a place we like to eat--we go back!