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......because the deer ate most of the blossoms and small buds last night
(again). After being hit like that, it takes almost a month for new buds to develop and produce blossoms. Strangely, my neighbor has a rose garden 15 feet away which doesn't seem affected and they do NOTHING. The neighbor on the other side of me has roses with blossoms coming out of their butts but they're also unaffected. Just me! A Google search turns up advise from 'nothing can be done' to electric fences to the use of attack dogs staked next to your rose garden to a nightime patrol with a 12 gauge shotgun. I'm still waiting for any reasonable suggestion. Anyone with personal experience with the various liquid sprays? elfa |
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On 8 Jul 2003 03:19:43 -0700, elfa wrote:
.....because the deer ate most of the blossoms and small buds last night (again). After being hit like that, it takes almost a month for new buds to develop and produce blossoms. Oh, man, elfa, that stinks. I am so sorry, for you and for me, as I was looking forward to living vicariously through your photos and enjoyng the first pretty blooms I have seen in weeks. I have no experience with deer, but I wonder if a few of those motion detecting sprinklers might work? That is the only thing I have heard that makes sense to me outside the high fences, the idea of which always seemed to me likely to spoil a pretty garden. Strangely, my neighbor has a rose garden 15 feet away which doesn't seem affected and they do NOTHING. The neighbor on the other side of me has roses with blossoms coming out of their butts but they're also unaffected. Just me! I know. The lady down the street who uses a local nursery to spray and prune and mulch her roses (all modern hybrid teas and floribundas) has four lovely rows of uniformly blooming bushes. I have said in the past that I hate how they prune to 12-18 inches every year, but looking at both of our gardens, they must be doing something right. I need to go knock on her door and see how she keeps the voles from eating the roots and killing her roses. This weekend I will go dig the stumps out of the side garden. I feel bruised, and I know you must too. Bambi my *ss! Are you too far out to employ a shotgun? G elfa |
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"elfa" wrote in I'm in the city limits but the city limits include lots of undeveloped open space with lots of wild life. Being only 1/4 mile from hills loaded with wild oak trees etc, we get everything from deer to possum to skunk to racoon. What was left of my roses got hammered again last night and so did my neighbors. elfa Hi elfa, We too have deer and because of my distraction with other things we were paid a very unwelcome visit by them about three weeks ago that decimated an extraordinary show in all of the beds outside. My fault for not spraying but I was working on something else and everything was so luscious and beautiful that deer was the last thing from my mind. Here is what has worked for us. It is similar to a brand named DeerOff and it works. At least it has worked when we sprayed it ;) 3 eggs left outside at least for a couple of days in the sun 2 heads of garlic (not two cloves, two whole heads) 1 small bottle of Tabasco Put the eggs in a blender with the garlic and the Tabasco and add about 1 and 1/2 cups of water and blend at high speed to make a liquid formula of it. Strain carefully (it stinks but it works and that is what counts) into your sprayer and add enough water to the sprayer to make one gallon of liquid. ( You can make it weaker than this by adding another half a gallon of water and still will work, but I like to keep them way away from the whole garden so we use it concentrated to a gallon ) - It will stay on the roses even after rain, and the noxious odor will disappear to a human nose in a couple of hours but the deer will still smell it for at least 4 weeks. At least here. We spray ours in the evening to avoid any kind of disagreeable smells to us, and since the deer visit at night they learn that the place is covered with something they don't like and stay away. Good luck and I hope it works for you as well as it has for us when we remember to spray it ;) Allegra |
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elfa writes:
What was left of my roses got hammered again last night and so did my neighbors. Elfa, really I am sorry your roses were hit by the deer. But I had to smile at this, at least there's some consolation, you're not alone. If you can't have blooms then neither should your neighbors! Julie |
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On 8 Jul 2003 10:38:25 -0700, elfa wrote:
I'm in the city limits but the city limits include lots of undeveloped open space with lots of wild life. Being only 1/4 mile from hills loaded with wild oak trees etc, we get everything from deer to possum to skunk to racoon. What was left of my roses got hammered again last night and so did my neighbors. Well it sounds pretty out there, anyway. You know, I have heard of men sort of, erm, "marking" the edges of the garden with er, um, urine, have you? Although, it seems human scent would be all over our gardens without this extra measure. Might be a better solution than that gaggy rotten egg stuff. I do not like to hurl, and I am afraid the idea of putting a well rotted egg in a blender is enough to gag me. elfa elfa |
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says... On 8 Jul 2003 10:38:25 -0700, elfa wrote: I'm in the city limits but the city limits include lots of undeveloped open space with lots of wild life. Being only 1/4 mile from hills loaded with wild oak trees etc, we get everything from deer to possum to skunk to racoon. What was left of my roses got hammered again last night and so did my neighbors. Well it sounds pretty out there, anyway. You know, I have heard of men sort of, erm, "marking" the edges of the garden with er, um, urine, have you? Although, it seems human scent would be all over our gardens without this extra measure. Might be a better solution than that gaggy rotten egg stuff. I do not like to hurl, and I am afraid the idea of putting a well rotted egg in a blender is enough to gag me. Not sure about the pee idea as I haven't seen that mentioned in my Google search. It could have merit. A friend down the street says years ago she planted some kind of garlic in her rose garden and it worked to keep the deer away. She says she neglected to keep the garlic trimmed and it 'took over the garden' so she stopped doing it. I guess I'm committed to the garlic idea. Three weeks ago, I got a cutting from one of her roses....'Peace' and started the propagation process. The deer didn't get these because they're in the back yard that's gated. What it looked like when I started: http://web.newsguy.com/paperbag/Imag...nda_peace2.JPG Now only 3 weeks later, I've got about 2 inches of new growth. http://web.newsguy.com/paperbag/Imag...nda_peace6.JPG http://web.newsguy.com/paperbag/Imag...nda_peace8.JPG What's weird is that I've got the growth before I have roots showing. I'm sure they're there, I just can't see them thru the clear plastic. For me that's really unusual as I get roots way before any serious growth. I've reached the point were I don't buy roses anymore. I just 'steal and plant'. I did 14 last summer as a trial. Got 12 to grow. This summer I got 5 going....so far. elfa elfa elfa |
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