Re: Our antlered "friends"

Dennis Mathiasen wrote:
> 
> At 09:06 PM 7/27/97 -0600, Marte Halleck wrote:
> >Neither seems to relish Alliums either, tho some have been stomped in
> >the eagerness to get at the Coreposis or other delectable. And neither
> >deer nor elk will eat my nemisis, the thistles!
> >
> >The deer-proof lists I see in magazines & catalogs vary a lot but then
> >deer are goats & will eat practically anything if they're really hungry.
> >Elk are a tad more selective but their feet & bodies are so much bigger
> >they devastate garden areas just investigating to see what they *might*
> >add to their diet.
> 
> I can second that they will eat anything at all.  This spring they were
> hungry enough to eat (and trample) my Pseudacorus, Beardeds and Siberians.
> All they left untouched were the JI's.  The only really consistently safe
> plants here are the daffs and japanese barberry, which is quite thorny.
> 
> I live in a clearing in the woods and have tried all kinds of things to
> keep them away.  The only consistent success has been from two large dogs
> (now deceased) and fencing.  I've found that they get used to any kind of
> scent deterrents rather quickly.  They ate daylilys, which had a bag of
> dried blood within inches, right to the ground.
> 
> Some months ago (as an exercise in html) I put together several web pages
> about deer deterrance and resistent plants.  You can find them at:
> http://www.borg.com/~dennis/deer.html  You can download a long list of
> plants categorized according to resistance from a sub page.  This list was
> put together by a group of master gardeners in Westchester county in New York.
> 
> Dennis Mathiasen
> zone 4b Central NY
> dennis@borg.com

Hi Dennis--

I checked out your web page -- and thank you,
Rima  tera@catskill.net
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