My Garden Was Attacked! Calling All Gardeners

My Garden was Attacked!

monica26 15 years ago

By a deer!! I probably had about 15-20 pepper plants in a garden, and last night a deer ate all of them! I worked for months growing them from seeds and they were just about to bloom and then a deer comes through the yard and eats them. That's just rude!

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susanmay 15 years ago said:

Oh no! So sorry that happened!! Some tall animal of some sorts got our only Honey Crisp apple that was growing on our new tree. We are in the middle of town, so we don't know what it could have been. It was too high up for the million rabbits that seem to dwell in our back yard, and I don't know what else could have wandered through. The rabbits have basically destroyed 3 of our 4 grape vines too.

Can you put up a fence for next year?

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monica26 15 years ago said:

Our yard is fenced in, and our garden has a little fence around it too, but neither of those mean anything to a deer. It could have been a deer that ate your honey crisp apple. I live in a tightly packed populous suburb of Cleveland with no real wooded areas in my immediate vacinity, but deer and foxes and coyotes seem to pop up every now and again. The coyote was a really creepy thing to see in my neighborhood. When I saw it I was like "oh, look at the dog roaming around by itself." Then I saw it's face, and I was like "oh my god.. not a dog... not a dog!" lol The deer have been hanging out in people's yards in my neighborhood a lot lately for some reason.

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lasaf 15 years ago said:

I think deer are just large rodents. They can live anywhere. I live in the outer suburbs and deer have eaten way to much at my expense. I think my neighbor secretly , accidently ,may have shot them this spring. Or there is a bear living in our back yard. Something has been keeping them out. Some of my lily's may even bloom this year. I think there should be open season on them. With this economy I am sure venison would be welcome in many homes. Better on the plate than in the yard.

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susanmay 15 years ago said:

Two fences... ugh! Here's a whole article on how to repel them! Some of the means are a bit gross though...

http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/wildlife/deercont.PDF

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momto5 15 years ago said:

That just stinks! My MIL has had trouble with dear where she lives too. They ate all of her tulips. Some of her neighbors had them even dig up the bulbs and eat those too. I would just cry and I didn't even grow mine from seeds.

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pleclare 15 years ago said:

I had deer eat off the tops of a lot of my tomato plants! They are terribel. Something ate the zucchini that were growing too.

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monica26 15 years ago said:

The deer came back again the other night and ate all my mom's hostas and ate the one pumpkin that was growing. We should get more pumpkins b/c we have a LOT of pumpkin plants with tons of flowers, but it was still disappointing since it was the first pumpkin I've ever grown. Weirdly enough though, I now have things growing in my garden that I didn't even plant. There are a bunch of sun flowers growing in the yard. I saw these big plants growing and had no idea what they were, but they looked interesting, and then all of a sudden they bloomed and they were sunflowers. My family used to put out squirrel food that had sunflower seeds in it, so I'm guessing that's where they came from.

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monica26 15 years ago said:

I got netting at home depot today and put it over my plants. Hopefully my deer problems are over!

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