Cheryl wrote on Mon, 2 Mar 2009 14:11:11 -0500:

>I think it's common practice to grow something that deer (and rabbits
for
>that matter) like more than the ornamentals so as long as they have the
>other option, they'll hopefully leave the plants you like alone. Not
>guaranteed, but better odds in your favor. As for attracting them to
>our yards and highways, that's our fault. We are taking their habitat
>and they are just trying to find food.

Understanding them and living with them are two different things. I
think deer are beautiful and stupid (though they seem to know that vinca
will make them sick) and have lost their habitat but it's me first! In
summer, when they are not starving, there seem to be a few things that
can discourage them eating plants like hanging up a bar of "Irish
Spring" soap in a net. That actually seems to work!



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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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