Woke up this morning looked outside at the soupy humidity wafting up from the cool lawn…and like always, I looked over to the large sunflower patch my wife and I are growing and :eek: :mad: Their all STUBS!! Fuck!
I knew right away it was the deer. I had tried everything to get them to back off including micturating in a large circle around the patch all Farley Mowat style! (just kidding) but I did put some human hair in bags in various spots and that worked for a while. But today…FUCK…I lost the battle. I swear to God I’m going to sit up in my treehouse with my fucking 12 gauge and wait for those little bastards and Fucking Annihilate them all! Well not really, I’m a passafist, but fucking still!! ERRR!!! :mad:
Anyone ever get a garden raped by the fawna around their house?
My mother lives in a small mountain town in Colorado. For most of the last 25 years she has tried to grow peonies. It seems that fresh peonies buds are an Elk’s absolute favorite food. Thing is in 25 years i think she has had one that actually got to bloom. They wait till they are just about to bloom then prune it right off.
The up side is that they got to watch an elk being born off their deck in the back yard this spring.
There’s a product called “Plantskydd” (or something similar), which is liquified blood meal. It seems to work to keep the moose off my crabapple and birch trees, but nothing is 100%. My wife insisted on these trees, so when she complains about the moose my response is “If you plant food, expect it to be eaten.”
If you go with the product above, make sure you wear long sleeves and rubber gloves, cuz the shit stinks bad.
Cute. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt on that one!
When I was growing up my dad spent much coin of the realm on a super-ultramagnificent cheery tree with grafts from 5 different types of cherry trees. We expected an absolute marvel of variety a couple years thence. And then came the deer and ate the whole god damned tree right dowm to the stump. Then they ate the 3 baby apple trees he’d planted at the same time. Deer are very short sighted. Deer are cute as hell when you’re hiking in the mountains, but they’re really no more welcome than a rabid weasel when they’re in the yard.
And where you are if it’s not the fawna (heh) it’s the slugs. But at least the slugs are easier to catch … and more fun to punish.
'round these parts the local nurseries sell some kind of liquid deer repellant. Supposedly it works, although I have no first hand experience with it. You have to put it on every day for something like 2 weeks, then after that just once a month.
Mike Tyson: “I’m a pacifist.”
Interviewer: “You? A pacifist?”
Mike Tyson: “Yeah - you ask me too many questions, and I’ll pass a fist through your head!”
u ppl mved nto r spase, we dint invit u, u cut dwn tha tres and bilt howses wher we livd fur yeers an dint cayr abut us. u wnt prtty flawrs? go lve in tha sittee an by a wndo bx.
Rats with antlers, buddy. Nothing more. Much is the garden I lost out in the Blue Ridge each year to those damn things.
City folk? They’re only cute as you pass by them on the highway. In person they’re pushy, aggressive bastards begging to be shot.
Don’t use the 12-gauge. Not enough stopping power at a distance. Use a good hunting rifle with a large caliber. Something with some pop. Then stock up for the winter. Salted vension ain’t that bad.
One thing you can do to save anything you might have left…
Make up a solution of water and some cayenne pepper. Not a whole lot. Maybe a teaspoon of cayenne to a liter of water. Then put it in a spray bottle and spritz your plants with it (you’ll have to re-spritz after it rains, too). Most critters take one bite and never try it again. I had a squirrel with a penchant for the cherry tomatoes I was growing. Cayenne cured him of it.
