Public Enemy Number 1

[Nyboy]

Ditto same as Mary, Today China is right around the bend

 

[catjac1975]

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After three years of cultivation it appeared that I would soon be pickling my first batch of olives. Yesterday I was looking at the plump green olives on my Picholine tree thinking: It won't be long now. Today, every one the olives is gone, along with the tips of several branches. The growing tips of my tomato plants have been chewed off, additionally several large green tomatoes have a single bite missing, all of the figs are long gone also.

Today I installed chicken wire around the deck rails to prevent these destructive creatures from poking their head through, and, I placed the two remaining trees with olives back in the greenhouse.

I sprayed a liquid on the tomatoes plants that is supposed to deter almost every type of critter, including deer.

Other than that, there is not much else I can do. There is no hunting within miles of our house and never will be. A large golf course nearby gives them plenty of room to live and breed so they live the good life around here. Every night a herd of deer wander though the property causing destruction at will.

If you don't have a dog-that would help. Just the presence of a dog seems to keep them at bay in my property. I also have a lot of empty land around me.They have their own habitat so that probably helps too. They were eating the tips of some Asiatic lilies last summer. I sent my husband out to mark territory in the native American way-no more lost buds.

 

[dickiebird]

dickiebird, I have ordered things from ebay that come from China. I am amazed that I get it in less than 2 weeks.

Mary

I'd be amazed that you got it at all!!!
In 2 weeks there may be no garden left.

THANX RICH

 

[ninnymary]

dickie, I've always received my items from China and even England. I recently ordered a bathing suit from China and got it in a week and a half.

Mary

 

[bobm]

LA, San Fransisco, Seattle, Portland Ore. / Vancouver, Wa. have quite a few warehouses that store containers full of products from China. So, just where do the ordered products actually phyically come from when an item is ordered ( China or warehouse ) ?

 

[majorcatfish]

was sitting on the steps of the barn yesterday respooling the weedeater and a deer popped out of the tree line walked right up to the pippin tree and eat apples
made a little noise it looked at me went back to eating them .. looked at me again turned and left.... glad to keep the deer in apples than whats in the gardens...

 

[Nyboy]

yep deer here just give you a look then back to what they where doing

 

[so lucky]

Not about deer, but my friend's neighbor spotted a mountain lion walking through her back yard recently--this is in a 200 house subdivision, not out in the middle of nowhere. The animal is tagged with a tracking device. The conservation people said it came up from Arkansas, about 130 miles south of here. Looking for a mate.
Between the mountain lions and the bears that are being seen regularly around here, this is beginning to feel like the wilderness. Oh, and our resident elk.

 

[Nyboy]

Lions and Tigers and Bears oh my. Sorry

 

[jackb]

Thought I would try this: motion activated solar powered spotlights right above the tomatoes. It will either ruin their night vision and scare them away, or, provide light so they can dine on the best tomatoes. Only cost sixteen dollars on eBay, so if it does not work on the deer I'll find another use for it.