Re: I have a ?
Hi Sue
A few years ago I discovered something that works pretty good for deer.
Buy a bag of bone meal and very lightly dust the new growth and lightly dust
the pumpkins. Deer don't like bone meal, but be very careful because too
much on the pumpkin can have a negative effect on the skin.
One thing you might also want to watch is if you have a dog keep him out of
the garden. My springer spaniel thought it was a new kind of candy for dogs.
He came out after I dusted all the leaves and his brown nose was white. (I
could him as he licked his face, thanking me for the powdered bone treat!)
Anyway, yes your plants should come back fine and I have buried the ends of
the vines after the deer trimmed the plants for me and they did just fine.
Good luck,
Bill
In a message dated 7/25/2005 10:58:53 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
esue53@hotmail.com writes:
LOL Thanks Frank for the info. I will do that and hopefully they won't
come back for desert. You know when that happens you want to cry but you got
to laugh when the deer outsmart you.
Thank you again.
Sue
From: Frank Edwards <edwardsfam@earthlink.net>
Reply-To: pumpkins@hort.net
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Subject: Re: I have a ?
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 09:50:56 -0400 (EDT)
Sue:
I guess the deer have taken care of terminating your vines for you.
Depending on the length of the vines, many would recommend terminating them
anyway, to direct the plant's energy to fruit growth. If it were me I'd bury
the ends. Your pumpkins should grow just fine. Unless the deer come back for
dessert... :)
Frank
Hudsonville, MI
-----Original Message-----
From: sue chamberlain <esue53@hotmail.com>
Sent: Jul 25, 2005 9:21 AM
To: pumpkins@hort.net
Subject: I have a ?
Hello All Pumpkineers,
I havn't asked any ? in quit awhile but I have one now if anyone could help
it sure would be appreciated.
I have 7 Atlantic Giant Pumpkin plants (one passed on) Anyway the deer got
into the garden and ate the tips off all but 2 of them , now they are still
growing and have pumpkins set on them. My question is beings the deer ate
quite abit of the ends of the vines can I just prune some and bury some. so
that the pumpkins that are on there will keep growing.???
Some of the plants the deer ate up the vine about 4feet. but the pumpkins
are stilll growing and new are coming on.
Thank you so much
Sue
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