Beanfan
Attractive To Bees
- Joined
- Nov 5, 2017
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Even though there is lots of other food to eat in my yard, including all the apples they could eat, I think some deer developed a taste for bean leaves and has decided to do whatever it can to eat more. Grrrr. I decided maybe my aging plastic trellis netting above my wire fence is too weak and one jumped through it, so I'm working hard surrounding my whole garden bed with bamboo canes with the branches and leaves on so they will not be able to find a nice place to jump in again. It does seem that stripping leaves off can spur the bean vine to make more flowers in some cases and perhaps more pods, it remains to be seen. My big garden beds had been safe from deer for 4 years. But the voles continue to nip some bean plants off at the ground and I may try the castor oil, dishwashing detergent and water again because it seemed to stop them earlier when they were really affecting a lot of beans, they are actually harming more plants than the deer.