Comments on: STOP! Tomato Thief! STOP!

By: Steve the Evil Gardener

Steve the Evil Gardener — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 13:30:57 +0000

I came home to 17 deer in my yard. City deer, they are not impressed by me. I’m East of your Cleveland abode in Pennsylvania, I know deer problems. I am cursed with an inability to kill deer. I can shoot the legs off a tick from 300 yards but I can’t kill a deer. My solution is not one many can use,– I have three acres to play with. I put the garden away from the tree line, closer to the road. I grow a sacrificial garden near the tree line next to the apple trees. They leave my garden alone because it’s easier to hang around the apple trees. Easy eating there. As long as I stay away from these aggressive city deer they let me use my yard.

By: MaryWitzl

MaryWitzl — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 13:46:06 +0000

This made me laugh. The deer in Scotland are particularly fond of daffodil bulbs. I’ve got animal-loving, quasi-vegetarian friends who get a hankering for venison after waking up to find that all the daffodil bulbs they planted have been scarfed up by deer.

By: chris

chris — Sun, 16 May 2010 00:29:08 +0000

I know this post is old, but I just found your blog, love it, and this post in particular really had me laughing. I live in rural New Jersey and love to garden. The deer population is so high here too, that nothing is safe. I’ve lost countless trees, flowers, veggies. You name it they eat it. I hate deer with a passion but wasn’t up to shooting them myself. I was raised in Northern Michigan and thus know how gross gutting a deer is. However, a few years ago I offered to let a friend’s husband hunt in my back yard. I don’t care for venison but they love it. In the last three years he’s taken about twelve deer from the back yard and he hasn’t had to pay to hunt at his expensive hunting club either. Guess what? The four legged buggers are a LOT less comfortable roaming through my yard now. I consider my friend a very, very helpful exterminator.

By: al metcalf

al metcalf — Thu, 06 May 2010 12:39:21 +0000

This is an old post I just found but I thought I would add my 2 cents, since (ha,ha) I am one of those that never ever eat meat. Personally just a health reason. But I don’t really like to kill stuff either. However, I am going hunting too! Damn deer killed one tree and ate lots of plants. I’ll give the meat away. Die deer die!

By: mark

mark — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:26:44 +0000

I know exactly how you feel. I also dream of shooting a deer in the very near future. In the mean time I came up with a low budget contraption that makes enough un-natural noise to keep them away from our garden. It actually did the job this past summer. One might call it a kinetic garden sculpture. You can make one out of an old electric drill and some spare parts for about 20 bucks. I’ve got pictures and free plans at backyarddeer.com