"limey" > wrote in message
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> "Doug Kanter" wrote
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>> "Wayne Boatwright" wrote >
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> patches wrote:
> I'm tempted to turn the little
>>>> bugger into rabbit stew! Any good recipes?
>>>
>>> Aw, but they're so cute!
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>> So are deer, except that some of them also need to die before my garden
>> gets going this season.
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> We're overrun with deer. We can't build a fence because of community
> association restrictive covenants, yet last year they stripped the tomato
> vines, the cucumbers, the hydrangeas, the peonies, my oriental lilies as
> they were two or three inches high and any other green thing they could
> get their teeth into. Naturally, they maraud in the middle of the night
> so we don't see them (just their tracks). Very disheartening.
>
> Dora
>

I may have a solution. I understand they don't like having their feet
interfered with. I have a lot of 6' fence wire. I'm thinking of laying it on
the ground, but bending every other row of squares upward in a triangular
shape in a way that would annoy even people. I'll just drag it away from the
vegetable garden when I need to access it, or mow around it. We'll see.....