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"Jim" wrote in message
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Ernie Willson wrote:

I live in New Jersey and have learned what flowers and shrubs deer will
decimate. By painful experience I now know what to plant for
foliage/flowers in the yard.

I am getting into growing vegetables. I would like to know what
vegetables they eat and do not eat.

I have noticed that thy will not eat my Asparagus.

Any suggestions for veggies they will/will not eat?

thanks,

EJ in NJ

http://landscaping.about.com/cs/pest...esistant_2.htm

http://gardening.about.com/od/garden...esistant_2.htm

I've had good success with boarders of English lavender

I didn't know English Lavender was edible.


Deer will enjoy many plants that people don't consider edible... do you
enjoy juniper, deer love it... I don't mind a little juniper flavor in my
2nis. hehe

When hungry enough deer will eat most any plant. Years can pass and just
when you think deer won't touch your prized hostas there'll be a harsh
winter and the deer will dessimate your hostas roots and all.

The only sure fire protection against maurading deer is a good strong
fence... the larger the area you want to protect the taller the fence
needs to be... deer need a good running start to leap a typical deer fence
and they are not so stupid as to leap into a small fenced enclosure
because they know exactly how much running space they need to leap out.
You also need to calculate for the depth of snow... every foot of snow
reduces the height of your fence to deer by about six inches. If you live
where 2-3 feet of snow accumulates that 5'-6' fence that works fine during
summer won't keep deer out in winter. There are also different kinds of
deer, some can't leap any great height, mule deer are not as agile as
whitetails.

Deer often get blamed for eating plants that some other animal ate...
small rabbits, and moles/voles can empty your veggie garden in one night.
Small rabbits can be fenced out with smaller mesh fence but those wee
burrowers are nearly impossible to eliminate. And then there are birds...
crows and ravens will eat most anything from a veggie garden, and they are
smart, and bold... even with netting they will watch out of sight off in
the distance until you lift the netting and will be at your veggies before
you can. I have to be careful when I harvest blueberries, the crows are
right there scolding me for stealing their blueberries.


During an exceptional drought, white-tailed deer will eat anything literally
to acquire some water content. They are more picky as rainfall is more
abundant.

"Deer" is a terrbly general term. What's worse, check out the original
English word "der" from which "deer" is derived. OP could be talkijng about
moose or mice in that case....