Re: CULT deer
- To: i*@onelist.com
- Subject: Re: CULT deer
- From: m*@attglobal.net
- Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 20:29:22 -0500
From: mmboehm@attglobal.net
Well they've done it already. Today being warm and spring-like, I
headed out to start the battle against the winter weeds in a bed that
always warms up first. It contains iris, daylilies, phlox, lavender,
columbine and a few old tulip bulbs. Maybe the bulbs are the problem:
the deer have visited over the electric fence and eaten the remaining
emerging tulip foliage from the tulips they have eaten for the last
three years -- all six of them. As long as the four footed beasties
were there they also ate every bearded iris leaf right down to the
rhizome, with the exception of a few straggly old dried leaves. Of
course the irises will put up new leaves but I do wonder what loosing
that greenery now does in terms of depleting plant energy. Would one
fertilize very lightly now and then again later?
Margaret Boehm
Wilton, CT zone 6, 68 degrees today and we'll probably get snow before
the month is over.
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