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what the deer eat at my house
Considering the fencing options...
Completely devoured: Aronia (chokeberry) Red mulberries Bean plants Hostas Daylilies Wild passionflowers (I'm saddest about these. They even found one I had put in a gardening pot and pulled it out of the pot. They got every single shoot) Heavily munched: Red-twig dogwood Regular dogwoods Elderberry Rose of sharon Eaten even though supposedly not tasty: Bee balm Viburnums |
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what the deer eat at my house
Have you tried spraying Tree Guard on your plants. It can't be used on
edibles, but my neighbors swear by it for azaleas, hosta and so on. It is a latex based, ready to use spray that is used on flowers, plants or shrubs that are being chewed on by deer. It contains a very bitter tasting chemical called Bitrex that they find very distasteful. It goes on milky and dries clear. It also lasts for approx. 2 months before breaking down. You can then reapply it. I sprayed my hosta, rose of sharon, ferns and a ton of flowers with it, and so far, nothing has been chewed. I see deer crossing our yard in the wee hours of the morning (2-4 am usually). I bought 5 gallons of it and am sharing it with our homeowners association. I spray our newly planted entrance to our subdivision. I sprayed it in late March and have had not one bite taken of the plants. I will probably reapply it soon. Give it a shot and let us know your results. Penny "Jane Peppler" wrote in message ... Considering the fencing options... Completely devoured: Aronia (chokeberry) Red mulberries Bean plants Hostas Daylilies Wild passionflowers (I'm saddest about these. They even found one I had put in a gardening pot and pulled it out of the pot. They got every single shoot) Heavily munched: Red-twig dogwood Regular dogwoods Elderberry Rose of sharon Eaten even though supposedly not tasty: Bee balm Viburnums |
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what the deer eat at my house
On Fri, 23 May 2003 12:16:52 -0400, Jane Peppler
wrote: a list of plants deer have eaten at her house. I've found they DON'T touch most herbs, like rosemary, lemon verbena, oregano. Nor a pomegranate shrub, Forsythia, the ferns, jack-in-the- pulpits, and buckeyes that thrive in the woods. And oh how I wish they WOULD eat nimblewill, bamboo grass, and eleagnus. I put a fence around my veggie garden, so am safe there. Other flower areas I have put chicken wire around the individual beds. You develop a blind spot to it after a while, and the wire weathers and becomes almost unnoticeable. But they have completely cleaned out the edible understory in our neighborhood woods... young dogwoods, maples, etc. Only the Eleagnus flourishes. And every year, more and more older dogwoods just up and die. Very sad (but makes great firewood). Kira |
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My two foot tall tomatoes didn't get touched for several weeks - now in the
past two nights almost all the leaves have been eaten from the tomato plants. We only have a few, and although I have plans to build a fence this year around the back yard, I may build a temporary portable fence just to drop around the few tomato plants. Has anyone tried any of the other deer preventatives? I've read that you can tie bar soap...but I've never tried that. -- Lance "Jane Peppler" wrote in message ... Considering the fencing options... Completely devoured: Aronia (chokeberry) Red mulberries Bean plants Hostas Daylilies Wild passionflowers (I'm saddest about these. They even found one I had put in a gardening pot and pulled it out of the pot. They got every single shoot) Heavily munched: Red-twig dogwood Regular dogwoods Elderberry Rose of sharon Eaten even though supposedly not tasty: Bee balm Viburnums |
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what the deer eat at my house
Eaten: Irish Spring soap hanging from the nerby trees....
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what the deer eat at my house
eaten: ripe figs, unripe pears. Fruits were on branches 3 ft. high
and deer friends left droppings. :-) (EHMAXEY) wrote in message ... Eaten: Irish Spring soap hanging from the nerby trees.... |
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what the deer eat at my house
Hahahaha. Thats hilarious. We have left a light on outside the last
few nights and no more eating has been done. I don't know how long that will last. -- Lance "EHMAXEY" wrote in message ... Eaten: Irish Spring soap hanging from the nerby trees.... |
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what the deer eat at my house
Lance:
Bar soap does NOT work. We tried Irish Spring. They either ate the soap or it disintegrated. In any case they ate the azaleas where the soap was hanging. Tom Lance R. wrote: My two foot tall tomatoes didn't get touched for several weeks - now in the past two nights almost all the leaves have been eaten from the tomato plants. We only have a few, and although I have plans to build a fence this year around the back yard, I may build a temporary portable fence just to drop around the few tomato plants. Has anyone tried any of the other deer preventatives? I've read that you can tie bar soap...but I've never tried that. |
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what the deer eat at my house
On Fri, 23 May 2003 12:16:52 -0400, Jane Peppler
wrote: a list of plants deer have eaten at her house. I've found they DON'T touch most herbs, like rosemary, lemon verbena, oregano. Nor a pomegranate shrub, Forsythia, the ferns, jack-in-the- pulpits, and buckeyes that thrive in the woods. And oh how I wish they WOULD eat nimblewill, bamboo grass, and eleagnus. I put a fence around my veggie garden, so am safe there. Other flower areas I have put chicken wire around the individual beds. You develop a blind spot to it after a while, and the wire weathers and becomes almost unnoticeable. But they have completely cleaned out the edible understory in our neighborhood woods... young dogwoods, maples, etc. Only the Eleagnus flourishes. And every year, more and more older dogwoods just up and die. Very sad (but makes great firewood). Kira |
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