Re: Deer!! Help Needed!

Around here all the garden landscapes are dotted with deer cages -- a circle
of fencing wire attached to itself which is set around every single
landscape shrub that the owner really wants to keep, because if the deer get
hungry enough they'll eat anything! My contractor tells a story about a
fellow who built a new home up the side of one of our local mountains and
wanted to put up a deer-proof hedge. He was assured that deer never touch
holly -- too prickly and too bitter. Well, I'm sure you know how the story
ends -- for three years they never touched it and just as he was really
congratulating himself on having planted a deer-proof hedge, they one wimter
just devoured the entire thing in a single night.

So fencing is the only reliably sure way to keep them off your shrubbery.
Unless you can obtain the services of the "Knights Who Say 'Nee!' " of
course...  :-)

Denise McCann Beck
Coastal British Columbia
USDA zone 7 Sunset Zone 4

-----Original Message-----
From: Rene M. Lipshires <rene1@ibm.net>
To: veggie-list@eskimo.com <veggie-list@eskimo.com>
Date: Sunday, January 31, 1999 5:15 AM
Subject: Deer!! Help Needed!


>I'm sad....
>
>My husband came in from getting the newspaper this morning, turned to me
and
>said "You didn't like those yews, anyways, did you?"
>
>Even though this is not related specifically to vege's, and I think this
>subject has been "talked" about before; but quite frankly, I have never had
>a problem with Bambie....  until now, that is..
>
>My whole foundation landscape has been, well, let's just say, "pruned"
>rather severely.  The once full yews are now twigs, hollies are stripped,
>and winter creepers are just gone!  On the positive side, (I always look
for
>a positive side), the deer left their droppings on the lawn as fertilizer.
>
>My first reaction was to put a minefield in the lawn, but upon calming
down,
>I realize that I was just over-reacting.
>
>So, ANY advice on how to prevent deer eating foundation plants in the
winter
>is greatly appreciated, please!!!!
>
>Thanx.
>
>Rene.
>
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