Damn You, My Deer

Even though the deer stepped silently into the yard and devoured a container rose bush all in one night, I remained optimistic for a bit longer.

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It ’s been so long since I ’ve exist in the country that I had forget how cervid can literally wreak compete garden end overnight . Our move to Hawk Hill in June has since jogged my memory . At our new business firm we have a fence in kitchen garden ( lovingly dubbed “ the potager ” ) that ’s — gratefully — thread with red-hot conducting wire . This is the one recourse I have for some veg bed . I would care more as I have develop ideas that just wo n’t be squelched .

Even though the cervid stepped taciturnly into the yard and devoured a container rise bush all in one Nox , I remained optimistic for a bit longer . After all , it took them a week or so to find the bush and we knew better anyhow . We had n’t bring it to the enwrap potager garden yet . My posture was “ Serves us correct . Our bad . ” I was able to maintain this high-handed position because it was still other summertime and there was plenty of wild cuisine for cervid dinner .

That wasthen(early summertime ) this isnow(fall ) . And winter front down in the mouth .

In the fall , there ’s a lot less groceries out there to fill their little deer mouths … they’ve even taken to nibbling my Moss Rose ( portulaca ) , a tender succulent . In early summertime my citrus trees were beneath their discriminate roof of the mouth . Come descent , they ’ve now become a finesse . I still find out deer beautiful and mellifluous to check , but in the air I can palpate a quiet war come on — and I ’m not have that gain feeling . So , I ’ve begin asking my deer - mollify neighbors .

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I ’m placing my bet on the grandiloquent fence . Have you render any of these techniques to keep deer from eating your plant life down to the ground ? Tell us what worked !

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Well, yeah, she’s gorgeous. But she also just ate your spinach. Photo bySkrewtapeunder the Creative Commons Attribution License 2.0.

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