Re: Deer Damage

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The hosta will grow back.  And so will the deer.  Last summer  I  had a 
group of hosta's get toasted by a freeze in May...they were well  on the road 
to recovery when a maple tree fell on them and destroyed them in  July.  They 
are all back this year and just got toasted by a freeze  again.  They're 
pretty resilient but they do succumb to the vagaries of  weather, deer, 
rabbits and slugs...then come right back to life though  slowly.  Let them recover 
on their own...don't juice them with  nutrients. 

Andrew Messinger
The Hampton Gardener is a  registered trade mark and is published every 
Thursday in The Southampton Press,  The Press and the Easthampton Press

In a message dated 5/19/2010 4:11:13 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
szerlag@earthlink.net writes:

Deer  ravaged my shade garden last night and my hosta have been reduced  
to  stalks. If I cut them back to the ground will they regenerate? Rain   
and a busy schedule kept me from treating new growth with Plant  Skydd  
and I took a heavy hit.
Nancy Szerlag
Columnist for  Detroit News
szerlag@earthlink.net
Check blog at  http://nancysgarden.wordpress.com

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