cybercat wrote on Sun, 1 Mar 2009 14:54:57 -0500:


> "James Silverton" > wrote in
> message ...
>> Hello All!
>>
>> It seems to have been a tough time this winter for wild life.
>> The acorn crop for the tree-rats was small around here and
>> the deer have just eaten my English ivy nearly to the ground.
>> I'd thought ivy was poisonous but not to horn-rats it seems. They
>> haven't touched the Pachysandra or the Vinca minor
>> (Periwinkle) yet.
>>
>> "Mairsy dotes and dosy dotes and little lambsy divy" or
>> something!

>Shoulda put food out for them, James.

I expect the ivy will grow back and I can do without either type of rat.
My neighborhood is insufficiently rural to allow hunting and I suppose I
will see the deer again once the daffodils start to grow.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

"James Silverton" > wrote
> I expect the ivy will grow back and I can do without either type of rat.
> My neighborhood is insufficiently rural to allow hunting and I suppose I
> will see the deer again once the daffodils start to grow.
>

And then if you are smart you will put out stuff they like to eat more than
daffidils.

cybercat wrote on Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:33:32 -0500:


> "James Silverton" > wrote
>> I expect the ivy will grow back and I can do without either
>> type of rat. My neighborhood is insufficiently rural to allow
>> hunting and I suppose I will see the deer again once the
>> daffodils start to grow.
>>
> And then if you are smart you will put out stuff they like to eat more
> than daffidils.

This is getting into a "having the last word" situation but deer don't
like anything better than flowers, the more expensive the better :-)

--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

On Mar 1, 5:37*pm, "James Silverton" >
wrote:
> *cybercat *wrote *on Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:33:32 -0500:
>
> > "James Silverton" > wrote
> >> I expect the ivy will grow back and I can do without either
> >> type of rat. My neighborhood is insufficiently rural to allow
> >> hunting and I suppose I will see the deer again once the
> >> daffodils start to grow.
>
> > And then if you are smart you will put out stuff they like to eat more
> > than daffidils.
>
> This is getting into a "having the last word" situation but deer don't
> like anything better than flowers, the more expensive the better :-)
>
Invest in Irish spring soap, and order some predator scent to apply to
your flower beds. The soap has the added advantage of being somewhat
alkaline, which the plants don't mind in the least.

maxine in ri