Re: Deer Damage

**K* M* <k*@iol.ie>**

I think that's a point we can't make too often to our readership - if something gets eaten or frozen or otherwise damaged the first reaction is often to feed it, and usually that't the last thing one should do until it has actually made new structures to help it assimilate the feed. It is easier to kill than cure with feeding

kathryn

On 19 May 2010, at 22:12, Hamptongar@aol.com wrote:

> 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. 
> 

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