Am going to answer two posts here at once...........
Actually, that was me - Kate - asking about the deer problem, not Mike. But anyway...........<G>
Mike: OK, that does sound like the same thing as the "Bird-X" netting that I bought for my strawberries, blueberries and other fruiting plants. I was keeping it handy, waiting to hear back from you. Although, the doe/deer haven't done it again since I strung that bar of soap in the tree.........fact, I haven't seen them at all since, but then they can be sneaky things and come in later after the 2 girls (housedogs) and I are asleep too.
It might've helped too (hopefully) to have mown down that little patch the other day of wildflowers that included sweet clover flowers near the tree that I'd left unmowed before for all the especially butterflies that'd been frequenting it. The doe was grazing that just before moving over to munch on my precious Snow Apple tree.
Margo - fishing line, good idea! Don't think I have any around, but I certainly have enough fisher-people friends to get a bit of it!! <G> That I could sink a couple 8 ft (about 7 ft after being sunk) T-posts around the tree to string a circle of fishing line around it.........that's a workable idea that I really do like the prospects of! Thanks!!!!!
Off to send an email to a fishing friend that's coming over this weekend..........<G>
Kate in WI :-)
<< OT 4-h cheaters/Redneck - Mike
Posted by: "onexyooper" meical.dafydd@hotmail.com onexyooper
Date: Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:15 pm ((PDT))
I don't know what color it is, but it is a plastic netting. I didn't get around to fencing my garden off this year, and my beans are pretty well venisoned. Again, this year, I will have to eat beans by proxy. The main way to prevail is to plant enough for all the critters and hope they leave you some.
Mike
I really miss Fleet/Farm TSC is a poor substitute
Posted by: "onexyooper" meical.dafydd@
Date: Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:15 pm ((PDT))
I don't know what color it is, but it is a plastic netting. I didn't get around to fencing my garden off this year, and my beans are pretty well venisoned. Again, this year, I will have to eat beans by proxy. The main way to prevail is to plant enough for all the critters and hope they leave you some.
Mike
I really miss Fleet/Farm TSC is a poor substitute
Re: Deer/was OT 4-h cheaters/Redneck - Mike
Posted by: "toomanyfurs" toomanykitties2@earthlink.net toomanyfurs
Date: Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:57 pm ((PDT))
The only thing that worked for me was fishing line, strung around the place I wanted them out of at chest height for the deer. The rationale I was given was that when they run into something they can't see, they go somewhere else.
It probably helped that there was plenty of other stuff for them to eat in the area, but it did keep them out of my garden and baby orchard, at least temporarily.
Margo >>
Posted by: "toomanyfurs" toomanykitties2@
Date: Mon Jul 26, 2010 10:57 pm ((PDT))
The only thing that worked for me was fishing line, strung around the place I wanted them out of at chest height for the deer. The rationale I was given was that when they run into something they can't see, they go somewhere else.
It probably helped that there was plenty of other stuff for them to eat in the area, but it did keep them out of my garden and baby orchard, at least temporarily.
Margo >>
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