limey wrote:
"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message from "limey" :

Well, I think I've lost heart for gardening, after trying at
this house.

Squirrels and birds stripped the peach and apple trees. Squirrels
also attacked the tomatoes.

The deer this year are really bad. First, in the spring they
ate my lilies.
Then, during the season they stripped the tomato vines and/or
ate the tomatoes. They then went to work on the cucumbers. After
that, they ate
the rhubarb leaves (I hope they got belly aches), but left the
decimated stalks.

At lunchtime today, I watched a doe and her fawn eat the
hydrangea vegetation, then the peony leaves, then they started
on the azaleas in the
back yard. I tried to shoo them off but they must have moved
at least 12
inches then stared at me. Next, I suppose, they will be
destroying the foundation plants. Give me a break.

I feel your pain, Dora. It's outrageous that gangs of criminal
species roam around our planet vandalising it, as if they were
homo sapiens. My advice is to move to a penthouse apartment in
the city. No more deer jumping on the balcony, and any passing
birds will feel dizzy from traffic fumes, fall into the road and
get crushed by traffic. Janet

I know, I know - we're encroaching on their habitat more and more.
However, deer aren't controlled in this area to any great extent,
are multiplying fast and are proving a real hazard on the roads.
We're lucky, I suppose - at least they're not hungry bears in the
yard. I'm just hungry for my own vegetables, though, and fences
aren't allowed here.
Dora

How do you keep your children/grandchildren and the dog in the yard?
Why would anyone want to live where you are? No fences? That is just
crazy.

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Travis in Shoreline Washington