On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 22:26:39 -0400, "Hoib"
wrote:

Having said that, what do you think? Cut the sticks away and hope for the
best? Is there some special food or fertilizer I should try in conjunction
with trimming?

If I'm going to have to sacrifice them, I'd rather do so now. I've found
that some boxwoods are deer resistant so if I drop those in now rather than
later (when the yews perhaps don't come back) they'll have a chance to latch
on while the spring is apon us.

Don't know. You could certainly prune and see how they do. Miine have
always regrown, but they haven't been as bad as you describe, either.
On the other hand, if you've got something you like that you could
plant there, you could just "get it over with". You're going to have
problems with yews and deer every year...

T.