Fwd: Deer!! Help Needed!

In a message dated 1/31/99 8:15:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, rene1@ibm.net
writes:

> 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!!!!

    If the deer are as hungry as you say, and once they have already learned
you provide a smorgasboard, probably none of the following will work, only
high velocity lead poisoning, or a high fence will work (and we had a seven
foot electric fence around one young orchard that the deer cleared with ease).
Dogs will sometimes work, but it depends on the disposition and intelligence
of the dog.

    Here's some:

    Human hair tied in bunches on the limbs.
    Bars of soap - the hotel size ones.
    Preditor animal urine, even human. Lion waste from the zoo has been used.
    Tobasco sauce, sprayed twice a week (more often, if it rains a lot). There
are commercial sprays based on "picante," but they are a lot more expensive
than what you can make yourself with your own heat.

    
Dave Green  Hemingway, SC  USA
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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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