Served her right!

[Smoke-Chem BBQ]

We've got some deck work underway, so I had to move our assortment of planter boxes and pots onto the driveway. We have a LOT of resident deer in the neighborhood--that's why we have to keep everything on the deck--so I figured some of the herbs would get devoured. I figured the peppers would be safe.

First morning after the move, my habanero plant had been eaten down to the nub, and even the two or three habaneros that were nearly ready to pick had been eaten. Nothing else was touched.

I don't think that particular doe will be back.

 

[bigfurmn]

You near Hershey *ahem* at all?

 

[Fueling Around]

Yeah, that sucks.
I have a 6' electric fence around my garden in MN due to the voracious appetite the deer have for my pepper, tomato, and potato plants. Go figure why they are attracted to toxic plants. Same with the rabbits that clipped off the onion shoots and spit them out and moved to the next bulb.
Herbs are usually a deterrent.

 

[bigfurmn]

Yeah, that sucks.
I have a 6' electric fence around my garden in MN due to the voracious appetite the deer have for my pepper, tomato, and potato plants. Go figure why they are attracted to toxic plants. Same with the rabbits that clipped off the onion shoots and spit them out and moved to the next bulb.

Quote Elmer Fudd kill the wabbitt kill the wabbit.

 

[Quiganomics]

Yeah, that sucks.
I have a 6' electric fence around my garden in MN due to the voracious appetite the deer have for my pepper, tomato, and potato plants. Go figure why they are attracted to toxic plants. Same with the rabbits that clipped off the onion shoots and spit them out and moved to the next bulb.
Herbs are usually a deterrent.

I planted our garden next to the chicken coop. Surprisingly chickens are a good deterrent to deer.

-Shaun

 

[cpaysonc]

We had to build a detterent due to deer, rabbit and squirrels.

 

[Winterrider]

That might be a bit extreme. . . but very effective. Looks really nice also !

 

[clifish]

We've got some deck work underway, so I had to move our assortment of planter boxes and pots onto the driveway. We have a LOT of resident deer in the neighborhood--that's why we have to keep everything on the deck--so I figured some of the herbs would get devoured. I figured the peppers would be safe.

First morning after the move, my habanero plant had been eaten down to the nub, and even the two or three habaneros that were nearly ready to pick had been eaten. Nothing else was touched.

I don't think that particular doe will be back.

They ate my ghost peppers and came back for more. I had to move everything into the fenced pool area after that.

 

[cpaysonc]

That might be a bit extreme. . . but very effective. Looks really nice also !

Appreciate it! It definitely does the trick. Love the drip tape irrigation system as well, plants thrive with it.

 

[sandyut]

The first summer we lived here my wife put out pots of flowers on the decks, decks had no gate. A day later they were just pots of dirt. Deer ate everything. There is a gate now.