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[email protected] · 17-04-2009, 11:22 AM posted to triangle.gardens

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:16:08 -0700 (PDT) in wrote:
I had to replace 4 of my roses because of the damage they caused last
year and now they are back. Any new ideas? Anyone tried a new
product?
I have motion lights have tried hair, Irish Spring soap, pinwheels
and probably a dozen other things I can't think of right now. I don't
think I can take another year of disappointment. Thanks for any help.

Hunting bow, cross bow, or gun.

Between the duck squeezers, lack of interest in hunting, and lack of
4 legged predators, the deer are busily over populating.
The deer and geese are also over populating.

Get your local legislators to re-legalize the public sale of venison
and start allowing hunting on the public lands, extend the seasons
for deer, and the problem will start to settle itself out.
Start re-introducing predators like wolves and mountain lions and
things will also settle off. Granted, pets illegally allowed to roam
off a leash would also feed the predators.

In the mean time, you need to consider physical barriers. Deer can
jump high, and deer can jump long, but they can't do both at the
same time. Either slant fences (Which need not be more than a few
stands of electric fence wire and some flags of tape), or have a
dense planting of shrubs just inside a high fence and you'll keep
most of them out.

Or you could buy grain for chumming deer and spread it out in the
neighbor's yard at the end of the block.
--
Chris Dukes
davej eskimos have hundreds of words for snow. I have two. Bullshit.