Sat, 07/04/2009 - 9:30pm — lambert
Great news! It wasn't slugs that ate my sunflowers, it was deer -- The morning I went out to check my garden and found the last remaining one, the two-foot one, all chewed up. And it fucking rained again today. After last winter, we get this?
I don't even have the heart to go up and check the roof. What would I do about it anyhow?
Oh, and I don't give two shits about Sarah Palin. Leave that one to the tabloids and Josh Marshall.
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Piss on 'em
No really. Deer are repulsed by the smell of human urine (and feces, but maybe that would be going too far). And, all that nitrogen will make the flowers grow.
And as soon as it stops raining...
... I'll do just that.
Actually, I tried that last year, when they ate my beans; it didn't work.
I think this year I'll try surrounding the garden with fishing line -- apparently when they step into it in the dark, and can't see it, they don't like it. Of course, there's a streetlight in front of the house, so maybe they won't like it.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
You could also try hot pepper sauce.
A friend of mind claims to have protected her veggies from the notoriously rapacious Bucks County, PA deer population using only a very, very hot pepper sauce she got from a friend who brought it back as a souvenir from New Mexico.
Heh, a FOAF story. Still, it's true.
Policy not party!
My neighbor...
...threw an old sheer scarf over her cherry tree early spring and no deer nibbles at all. Our pear and peach and even golden chain tree have been well nibbled. Might be worth a try even though it sounds like it's too late for your sunflowers, sadly. BTW, stupid question but what does fkdp stand for, besides the obvious interpretation of course...
Rototillaphiliac
Formerly Known as Democratic Party
Rather like the Artist Formerly Known as Prince.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Composted sewage sludge
I reclaimed a gravel pit with composted sewage sludge, from a town with no industry at all and documentation of no metals or toxic organics. The deer stayed out of there for three years.