Deer

really? That's bad.

I don't want to blab about my neighbors cause they just might be listening!

I think my old neighbors would be too trashed to figure out how to use the computer.

Start the thread and send us a link. Could be great fun while this heat hangs around. Maybe we could appreciate our own loonies after hearing about yours.

I once drove off a loud neighbor party with Tennessee Ernie Ford's Greatest Hits. I still have the CD if anyone wants to borrow it.

Julie

Does it work on deer?? (Had to try to return to the subject eventually!)

So - where IS Dan the Deer Guy? (Just go to throw that in every hundred posts or so.)

He's with Jan's imaginary friend. There's a DG just for fake people.

Is he a fakir???

Apparently so since he's invisible.

Yup....I'd say so too, Pirl.......

Well I wish these were always invisible. This is from a couple years ago, no fear, shot taken from front door. They run much more quickly now since I adopted the barking like a dog, waving arms running at them routine. :)

Are they laughing as they run??

I guess I do an imitation of ngam as I throw snow shovels, like spears, at the geese every spring.

Victor do you think it is the pink garden clogs that sets them off?

Pirl glad to know I'm normal. :)

Maybe they think you're a flamingo!

LOL!!! Well just as long as they take their party elsewhere they can think I'm a deer eating pink elephant or just some nutty little lady. You are too funny Victor. :)

Thanks. If it works, you're always welcome here.

I have been pestered by deer for the last 15 years. In responce I have erected a deer fence made of heavy duty plastic on 7' poles driven into the ground at 10' intervals. This is almost invisable except for the posts. However I didn't want to bring it across the front near the street so I leave that section open. Although the deer can easilly come in to the garden from the front they didn't usually do so because they don't like to be confined or trapped. That is until this year. They have discovered my hostas and have decimated them. I chase them when I see them but they sneak back as soon as I leave, I have sprayed the hostas with liquid fence, which controls the deer's appetite on azaleas (so far they haven't eaten the Rhododendrons for some reason) but it doesn't seem to work on the hostas. They have battered down the fence I erected in a few spots. and I have had to strengthen the fence by weaving heavier wire through it. I am at my wits end.
arfitz

That's exactly where the deer want you - at wits end.

Move the hosta if you ever want to see them grow. Once they know where their favorite treat is they'll come back for more.

I feel your pain arfitz. Sorry to hear about this.

It really is something many of us can share - the pain of a deer visit. Somehow knowing others have similar problems lessens the grief a little.

I did have to shake my head in amazement when they ate all fifty tulip flowers but left that one daffodil in the center.

I used to think the sight of my mother-in-law coming down the driveway was the worst possible sight...

I bet your MIL is a sweetie and you just love to tease about her.

Actually she is great and we get along fine.

Victor, you always crack me up.

Jen - he cracks me up, too.

I loved my m-i-l. She always took my side of every issue!

This thread coming back up reminds me I need to refresh the Deervik for the fall invasion. I hate Bambi!

How well does that work, ngam?? Sounds like a letter I never want to receive.

Dear Victor....

Oh no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just kidding!

It has been working well for me. I just use those green bamboo stakes or a twig that has fallen from a tree around a plant the deer like to munch. Dob the jar on top again every two months or so. It loses some effectiveness in really cold winter temps. Lasts through rain which is what I like about it. Been using it for about three years now and have not lost a hosta since I began with it. You get used to it being there very quickly when working in the garden, it does wash off easily with soap and water.

What does it smell like?

It ain't pretty! Was once an old furniture polish or something...it smells bad up close but you can't smell it when in the garden, but the deer can.

Thanks. It's most important that the deer don't like it.

I'll have to check it out.

Oh you silly goose! You're not a deer, but a dear.