STOP! Tomato Thief! STOP!
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Tonight I was going to do another tomato tasting on a God’s Love tomato. Just yesterday, there was one hanging on the vine just as red and tasty looking as you please. This morning, when I wandered out to grab that tomato *ACK!* the tomato was gone. Also lifted from my garden was half my Malabar spinach plants and half of a habanero pepper plant (I hope they are still drinking out of a creek somewhere).
I recognize this thief. She (most likely) has done this before. Damn deer.
I have decided that this fall I will be trying deer hunting. I mean this seriously. I talked it over with my husband a few months ago (my deer hatred runs deep and long) and I feel I would feel better about them eating some of my garden if I got to eat some of them. My grandfather has even offered to let me have his rifle.
And before any deer bleeding hearts go berate me for going vendetta hunting, the Ohio deer population is more than healthy. In fact, there are so many that they are putting Ohio parks and forests at risk due to the fact that there are too many and they are over grazing the understory of the forests.
Beyond that, I only want to hear protests from people who never, ever eat meat. Have you ever seen the way animals are slaughtered? Jeez, at least when your hunting the animal has a chance and had a relatively good life before that.
Nope, it won’t stop them from eating my garden, but it sure will taste good just knowing there is one less.
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August 7th, 2007 at 9:00 am
Hi - somehow found my way over here via Garden Rant (I think - I’ve lost track). We have deer issues as well, and one thing I have found that seems to work (but you really need to keep up with it) is called Liquid Fence. Smells godawful (like garlic and rotten eggs), but it’s all natural and does keep the beady-eyed fleabags away. Of course, we haven’t sprayed in more than a month, so they’ve eaten every hosta leaf in sight and are probably waiting until my tomatoes ripen before they hit those. Get the concentrate, not the ready-to-spray stuff - while it’s spendy (at least in my opinion), it’s cheaper in the long run.
August 8th, 2007 at 5:38 am
The deer are eating everything in my yard! I had a huge wonderful tomato plant that was for my porch they ate the thing down to the dirt. They even tried to get into my big garden where I grow all my veggies. I never thought deer would eat tomato’s of all things. When they got into the bbig garden they even knocked over the tomato stakes. They eat the beans and all my flowers. I have to wonder if they are starving? I never seen them rip apart my yard like they have this summer. I’m over in St. C. Ohio.
August 19th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
I’d eat venison whether or not they ate my garden. Yum!
August 26th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
It’s been an awfully dry summer. There may be fewer things for them to eat outside your garden. I don’t know how large your space is, but I don’t have a huge problem with deer getting into my garden. I believe this is because I have clover and abandoned apple trees at the back of my property and they prefer to eat there than to come up where our dogs might be. I don’t hunt but we have allowed neighbors to hunt our property in the past, and I certainly never turn my nose at some tasty venison.
November 28th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
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