Smaller containers appeal to veggie gardeners who don’t have lots of space Washington Post Container gardening is growing smaller. Suppliers are downsizing this season with easier-to-use trough planters, raised beds, pots or bags. It’s an effective way to produce edibles or blooms in tight spaces. One of the leaders in this less-is-better … Master Gardener [...] Read more »
Deer and Dog Playing with a Ball… Enjoy
I saw this video on CNN and laughed my head off. Love the deer hate the ruined garden. Enjoy. Read more »
Latex Based Deer Repellent
I noticed today that someone visited our site after searching in Google with “latex based deer repellent.” I thought I write a bit about that. What latex does is to help the deer repellent stay on the plants and resist washing off due to rain or snow. However the problem is if you covered all [...] Read more »
Texas Pete and Eggs – Home-made Recipe
photo credit: sky#walker Here is another recipe from www.forthgo.com When we had a landscaper over to consult on, among other things, installing some deer fencing so we could plant some more perennials, he suggested a much cheaper solution. He gave us his homemade deer repellent recipe, and it’s been working fine for two months now. [...] Read more »
Building a Garden with Deer Resistant Plants
photo credit: Andrew Stawarz Here is a very nice article around building a garden with deer resistant plants. It is from About.com. The rest of the article is here. Landscapers typically select drought-resistant plants when designing rock gardens. But in regions where deer control is an issue, your rock garden plants should also be deer-resistant. [...] Read more »
Deer Repellent for the Winter – Try Deer Guard
Image via Wikipedia Deer Guard® deer repellent lasts all winter. If you spray in the fall when the leaves are falling you don’t have to spray again until new growth comes out in the spring. Our product is well tested and recommended by the National Home Gardening Club. You can read more about our testing [...] Read more »
Deer of the World. Their Evolution, Behavior and Ecology by Valerius Geist
photo credit: etohaholic The deer’s big appetite for highly digestible, nutrients-rich forage apparently drove its evolution. The growth of large antlers demands such forage, particularly in large-bodied species; antlers grow with proportion to the body. Generally, the larger the body of a species the larger is its antlers. The bone-forming antlers demand calcium and phosphate [...] Read more »
Swedish Deer Repellent
photo credit: akeg I came across this little gem of a recipe as I was surfing the net. It is from www.humseeds.com. Ed Hume is a gardening guy with a blog. I have not tried this, yet. It was recommended by another Garden Writer. Hope it works! Swedish Skewers — Deer-Repellent Cubes: Mix 2.5 lbs [...] Read more »
Drastic Deer Damage Requires Drastic Deer Reduction – From NY Times
photo credit: stro11er Land managers are aware of the catastrophic impact of super-abundant deer on tree regeneration and the loss of biodiversity in the metropolitan New York region’s herbaceous forest wildflowers. Now another phenomenon, the loss of the woody shrub layer, has reached a critical stage across most of the region (outside the New Jersey [...] Read more »
Deer Population is Growing Concern – From Wheeling News Register
photo credit: AndyeMcee When the deer population rises and the starvation level increases, deer will begin to eat a larger variety of plants and flowers they may not normally prefer, Miller said. He said August is the time of year deer begin to move closer to residential areas of the city because they are more [...] Read more »