Re: Deer Damaged Pumpkins

Hi Errol, 
I would sprinkle powdered bone meal on the pumpkins you don't want the deer to eat. I usually do it in the morning when there is dew on the pumpkins and the leaves and lightly sprinkle everything. If they eat the pumpkin after that, Stay Out Of The Garden! It isn't a deer. 
Good luck, 
Bill 
On Aug 25, 2010, at 2:46 PM, Errol wrote:

> For the 1st Year in the last 15 years of growing my pumpkins I've had a deer decide that they are tasty!
> 
> They ate all of my Cinderella and Field pumpkins in one of my patches but they left my big pumpkins that are planted about a acre away alone that night.
> 
> Then a couple of nights ago they found my big pumpkins and they took about 8 big bites out of my 2nd largest.
> 
> I have taken countermeasures to protect the pumpkins left just short of putting the 1 big buck  out of the 5 that I think is the culprit in the freezer.
> 
> The bites have scabbed over and don't appear to be going soft but I was wondering if I should put something on the bite chunk spots just in case to protect them or just watch it closely!
> 
> I do have a few cuke beetles but they haven't bothered my plants and I have been hand picking them off but the deer are a different story.
> 
> Also I am very reserved on spraying my pumpkins because at the end of the year I recycle my pumpkins by goats and poultry which create the manure for the garden! =-)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Errol
> 
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