Re: Okay.. now... How about Deer

When in season.. The farmeres and hunters around here use pumpkin as bait to attract the deer.    

 ---- you wrote: 
> Hi All,
> 
> First year grower here with an upcoming problem.  Seeking guidance from the
> learned and imaginative group of fellow listers out there in that great
> pumpkin patch world of ours.
> 
> I'm lucky in the sense that I have no woodchucks in my part of the world.
> However, I am blessed with an ample supply of white tail deer.  These
> critters don't appear interested in pumpkin plants in the least.  They allow
> you to grow the plants to your hearts content.  They even appear to be
> uninterested in pumpkins...at first....perhaps they just want you to spend
> the maximum amount of time, money, and energy before they strike...I'm not
> sure.
> 
> At any rate, they apparently enjoy the process of busting pumpkins with
> their hoofs once they are about ripe.  I am thinking they may have a deer
> party and see which deer can make the biggest hole with their hoof...perhaps
> as a way for the bucks to impress the doe.
> 
> I would like help in thwarting the deer fun.  Sort of a Deer Party Pooper
> Program, if you will.  Any suggestions??
> 
> Pumpkin thought for the day 06/01/00
> 
> The world is a pumpkin patch
> To enrich and work each day
> Until we grow the best we can
> With help from friends and toil.
> 
> The world is a pumpkin patch
> To make better in our own way.
> Yet we so often treat as dirt
> God's precious, living soil.
> 
> The world is a pumpkin patch
> and the question of the day-
> Will our fruits be great or small?
> The answer comes from our soul.
> 
> Bernell McGehee
> Liberty, Mississippi
> 
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