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Planting Under Trees - Part 9Read the article this discussion is about
This archived discussion is "read only". « Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next » » Marge_Talt - Clay, Let's sure hope so! It should work a lot better than t Clay,Let's sure hope so! It should work a lot better than the fencing I've been slaving over for the past three weeks! I have, however, taken your advice and put down one roll of wire in front of the section where their main path on the northside of the house has been. At something over $30/ 50 foot roll, I just don't have the budget for more of it and it is the devil and all to lay in brush and sapling filled woods. Propped it up on logs and put it in front of the plastic fence so they would have to jump it and the fence! So far, I think that section is holding. I must have a weak point in my defenses elsewhere, tho' as they have been in and gotten out. Stomped all over my new damp garden - the only place the soil is moist enough to leave prints. I need to go back around and add more log and brush piles on the outside of the fence to keep them far enough away from it so they are reluctant to jump. Sigh! Thought I'd fixed them, but..... Anyway, I am sure your lovely expensive solid fencing will work because they won't jump where they can't see a safe landing place. Well, I suppose they might if in a total panic, but that shouldn't happen. Upward and onward in the continuing battle of wits with bambi... Marge -- posted by Marge_Talt » Daffyclay - Marge, The new hosta bed is not beside the solid fence. I ca Marge,The new hosta bed is not beside the solid fence. I can hardly see the solid fence from the house - just a corner here and a top there over the bushes and shrubs. I used a decorative six foot high fence to "seal" the 20 feet between the corner of the garage and the corner of the house at the kitchen. The hosta is behind the decorative fence which has "6" inch wide gaps between the rods. I'm hoping, because of the close proximity of the house that Bambi's mom and dad will not decide to cross my driveway, just to jump a fence. We'll see. Clay Higgins, Editor: Clay's Daffodils -- posted by Daffyclay » Cottage_Garden - You'd better cross your fingers<i>and</i> your toes on that one! You'd better cross your fingersand your toes on that one! We just had a deer jump our fence for the first time. The curved driveway runs between two sets of fence, one along the veggie garden and one along the main garden. One evening my husband pulled around the last curve of the drive and came upon a deer. Both were quite startled. The deer bolted straight over the fence in to the main garden. From a standstill. Never say Never. Barbara Martin -- posted by Cottage_Garden » Daffyclay - Barbara, This is serious stuff. The stuff from which legends Barbara,This is serious stuff. The stuff from which legends are made. The legends of big words and little do. I hope bambi's father quotes Nathanial Hale before he jumps my fence, "I regret that I have but one life to give . . ." Clay Higgins, Editor: Clay's Daffodils -- posted by Daffyclay » Marge_Talt - Well, Clay, I echo Barbara - <b>Good Luck!</b>. I have rigged a Well, Clay, I echo Barbara - Good Luck!. I have rigged a vertibable booby trap fence and those suckers are still finding spots where they feel it's safe to jump...and it seems to be, as I have not found any deer with broken legs laying around. But I haven't given up.My herd will come quite close to the house to eat the ivy and whatever else they can get but they have never - so far (knock on wood) ventured up onto the covered walkway, or right smack up to the house. I've got some daylilies right against the laundry room door - and that wall is also covered in ivy - and they have never come up to eat either one - both on their favorites list in other parts of the garden. You might try flinging Milorganite liberally around those hostas as soon as they think about poking up their noses. My herd, at least, dislikes it intensly and won't eat plants in an area where I've done this - at least not until the first hard rain. Unfortunately, rain or shine, you have to renew applications about every 2 weeks for the scent to stay strong enough to keep them away. Couldn't hurt at any rate, and the hostas will like the mild feed it gives. Marge -- posted by Marge_Talt » Cottage_Garden - I will never forget the winter they literally climbed my front a I will never forget the winter they literally climbed my front and back steps so they could reach further into the yew bushes to munch.This summer when the fence was down they cruised the entire garden to find every daylily bud. (These are interspersed all around everywhere so it must have taken quite a while!) As my husband said the very first time a deer browsed: "Barb's Deli -- Now Open!" Clay, you'd better sharpen those pencils and get ready to record the feats! Barbara Martin -- posted by Cottage_Garden » Daffyclay - Well . . . Do appreciate all the encouragement! I can see this Well . . . Do appreciate all the encouragement! I can see this is a war without any front lines. But, to make a take off on Barb's Deli, Clay's Deli is now closed.Clay Higgins, Editor: Clay's Daffodils -- posted by Daffyclay » Cottage_Garden - Have you put up the outriggers yet? Seriously, good luck with y Have you put up the outriggers yet? Seriously, good luck with your new fence!!!!Barbara Martin -- posted by Cottage_Garden » Daffyclay - No outriggers. How about a bow hunter standing guard? Actual No outriggers. How about a bow hunter standing guard?Actually, as it is, the deer will have to run an obstacle course to get to the decorative fence between the garage and the house. He has to negotiate a four foot stone wall from my neighbors house, where he comes from, across our launching pad in front of the garage (designated launching pad because the first time my sister-in-law saw it, she said "that pad in from of your garage is large enough to use as a Cape Caneveral Launching Pad"), go through the valley of death which is the small channel between the garage and house in which the deer are subject to the horrors of my 13.5 pound American Eskimo dog's fit of barking. Next it will have to nibble a patch of asiatic lillies, more hosta, and my tulips (in season), and whatever annuals that I may have growing. By then, I'm hoping it will be bloated to jump. LOL. Clay Higgins, Editor: Clay's Daffodils -- posted by Daffyclay » Cottage_Garden - Sounds good -- but I know the dog won't matter unless it is outs Sounds good -- but I know the dog won't matter unless it is outside and loose and can chase them. (NO I'm not suggesting you let it out to chase them -- in some places that's illegal, in any case it's not too humane.)Can you get a motion activated camera to survey the area? Barbara Martin -- posted by Cottage_Garden « Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next » Please follow the guidelines set forth in the Suite101 Posting Etiquette when adding to the discussion. |
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