This morning we went to give it a second and third pass but something snapped and we spent the rest of the morning waiting for the repairman to come out. In the meantime, we sent the kids into the field pulling up rocks and talking to neighbors who passed by asking us about deer control and things like that.
We have some options for deer control:
Motion activated sprinklers
Fencing
Natural odor repellents
Planting a small perimeter crop that we're willing to sacrifice to the deer
So we'll just have to see how it goes.
Here's some pics from the morning! Any other ideas????
Exciting! We used empty milk jugs turned upside down on long wooden stakes...that was for a small box garden long ago. Not sure if that helped, but maybe. Also, get an owl statue and perch him up somewhere, that helps keep the birds from stealing your seeds. Hope that was helpful.
ReplyDeleteI love the pictures you have here. On day we would love to have land like this
ReplyDeleteWe have livestock guardian dogs that protect our goats from coyotes but they also keep the deer out of our goat pastures and our garden. (Which is fenced off from the goats!)
ReplyDeleteDeer netting is not that expensive and you could just make frames to go over everything and lift them off. Or just cover the plants themselves. We have used it with great success, though not for deer but it sure keeps the oppossums and squirels out of the strawberries.
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