Re: Pumpkin strip.

Pattie:
Try an experiment, I don't promise it will work but it is worth the effort.
I have read the following in various magazines: Ask your friends to save
doggie poop for you in bags and decorate your most exposed garden with it,
the bigger the dog the better.  Also save human urine daily and use it
around the edges of the garden (gross-huh?). This is something along the
lines of what cats and other animals do to mark the territory.  I have read
that this is somewhat effective at keeping out four legged predators.  But,
if they are hungry enough - they will go anywhere.
Leila @
MuslimaLeila@hotmail.com

pattie@juno.com wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:15:43 -0500 stanberry
> <stanberry@knowledge-tree.com> writes:
> >Pattie:
> >Depending on how creative (or how big your family and friends group
> >is) may
> >I recommend that you get
> >    1. cucumbers (some love! to climb fences - especially with a
> >little help
> >from ties made from the cutting strips from plastic trash bags)
> >    2. depending on how good/bad the soil is- cantaloupes.
> >    3. any of the squash family: pumpkins, winter squash, spaghetti
> >squash,
> >acorn squash, zucchini, summer yellow squash, etc
> >    4. if the deer aren't extremely terrible you can use the fence to
> >support tomatoes also.
>
> Unfortunately.  1.  My deer love to eat the cucumber flowers and those
> that get to be cucumbers, well, the deer take one bite out of each.
> 2.  My deer love to eat the flowers off of these as well.
> 3.  My deer love the squash family of flowers and really love the
> zukes that make it to the baby stage.
> I grow tomatoes, peppers, onions, cantaloupes, zukes, strawberries,
> grapes, cukes, gourds and some other things inside my electric
> fence.  That is the only way that I get anything.
>      So, Nancy, I thank you for your concideration but will have to
> ask you to think harder and try again to help me out.
>
> And Carol,  super idea with the mini pumpkins. (Does having mice
> do the work for you make you Cinderella?)  I think I will plant
> some in my neighbors yard and then let my grandchildren harvest
> them in the fall.  Maybe the mini pumpkins will escape the deer if
> I aim them into my neighbor's bushes.
>      Stan              the cheap and lazy gardener
> P.S.    Pumpkin:    The other orange flower.
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