"zxcvbob" > wrote in message
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> Doug Kanter wrote:
>> "limey" > wrote in message
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>>> "Doug Kanter" wrote
>>>> "Wayne Boatwright" wrote >
>>> patches wrote:
>>> I'm tempted to turn the little
>>>>>> bugger into rabbit stew! Any good recipes?
>>>>> Aw, but they're so cute!
>>>> So are deer, except that some of them also need to die before my garden
>>>> gets going this season.
>>> 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.....
>
>
> A tent of 1" chicken wire is easier and works pretty good. Just bend it
> into a little hoop or quonset hut cover for the row (make sure the close
> the ends)
>
> Bob

I do that for the short stuff, but for the tomato towers & bean poles, I
really need to force the deer to keep their distance.