Thank you Tracy. I’ve always been rather thankful that funds have always been very tight for our single-income, six-person family. Frugality leads to the best creativity, don’t you think? And yes, a lush little hideaway growing in the garden is a kid’s dream come true.

Thank you, Barbara. We actually don’t have much trouble with deer. We are surrounded by forest, with numerous families of deer living nearby, but I guess they have plenty of food without venturing into our garden. We did add a fence around our garden last year, though, because our free-range chicken would destroy our seedlings every spring if we didn’t. I wrote about the few tactics we used to ward off deer pre-garden-fencing in this old post if you’d like to glance at that–> http://soulyrested.com/2014/07/14/heart-shaped-lessons-from-a-white-tailed-visitor/