bunny/deer in garden and yard

[DIGGER]

Honestly....im not going to slave away in a garden just to feed the animals.   They are bldg new neighborhoods all around me and in so doing the animals are having to move into my neighborhood area.  My garden is about 50x50 and is a lot of work to keep up.    I dont have a deer problem so much as a racoon and opossum problem.   When i see signs of critters i try to trap them in my large animal live trap and relocate them to a forest area about 20 miles from here.  I give them that chance for 3 or 4 nights then i leg trap them and do away with them.   This year a new neighborhood is going up about 400 yds from me and my garden has been invaded by large field rats.  They ruined most of my cantelope crop.  I set a rat size live trap and in the last 3 weeks ive caught 16 large field rats and sent them over the rainbow with my pellet gun. 

[DIGGER]

Oh yeah.....i keep the deer out of my garden by placing very sweaty old pants and shirts scattered around my garden.   The deer dont like the human smell and stay away.

[Willow]

Deer meat tastes pretty good....especially when tenderized and fried in small pieces and served with mashed potatoes

That is a lot of steak and stew

You fellas do realize that LadyDraco does not eat meat?

[LadyDraco]

I don't  think they care  Carl .. 
And  if  they want to think those  pic  are  Deer  they are  in for  big trouble   

[cookiedough]

Honestly....im not going to slave away in a garden just to feed the animals.   They are bldg new neighborhoods all around me and in so doing the animals are having to move into my neighborhood area.  My garden is about 50x50 and is a lot of work to keep up.    I dont have a deer problem so much as a racoon and opossum problem.   When i see signs of critters i try to trap them in my large animal live trap and relocate them to a forest area about 20 miles from here.  I give them that chance for 3 or 4 nights then i leg trap them and do away with them.   This year a new neighborhood is going up about 400 yds from me and my garden has been invaded by large field rats.  They ruined most of my cantelope crop.  I set a rat size live trap and in the last 3 weeks ive caught 16 large field rats and sent them over the rainbow with my pellet gun. 

wow, you got 16 rats, I guess I will take my bunny rabbits instead.  I do have a bunch of VOLE holes all over my garden though use mouse traps under bucket get a few each year.  replanted 8x16 ft patch  of green beans and put netting over 3ft up so should be ok for green beans if they get going and sprout soon 60 days until maturity before 1st frost I hope? 

[LadyDraco]

 replanted 8x16 ft patch  of green beans and put netting over 3ft up so should be ok for green beans if they get going and sprout soon 60 days until maturity before 1st frost I hope? 

That's how  I feel , I  just replanted  on Aug 1.  On my fav beans.. they are  a  50 d Mat.
If we  get an Indian summer  it  will be  ok  ..

[LadyDraco]

I  have  already pulled  a  bushel of  tomatoes  out of  the  garden..
It looks  like  maybe  5  or  6 Bushels this  year  .
Not my normal 11 - 18 bushels... But I  also didn't  plant 250+ tomatoes plants..


SO trapping them GH when I did  was great timing...

Love  it when a  plan does come together...


Taters  hardly bloomed this  year , odd...
I should   get a  bushel  from them .. But ya  never  know..
With 1/2 that patch being ravaged  by cubs..

[Oss]

I coulda swore the groundhog had given me the finger salute

Have apples and zuke and tomato in the
Have a heart. No joy

Been harvesting yellow squash and delicata  squash. There are many tomato but not read yet.  Green zukes done. Cukes died Some tomato have rot on ends
Beans full of flowers but are just takin their time

[LadyDraco]

Evan did  you put 1 TB  Epson salts in each tomatoes  hole ?
Since  I  have  been doing that, and  giving  the  baby plants a mixture  of  milk and  water,
Before I  ever  get them in the ground.
I very seldom have  blossom end  rot any more. 1  or  2  tomatoes out of  bushels..
   That's  some  very good studies...   

[Oss]

too late to put in the hole but I can sure sprinkle some around the roots

Will try it and let ya know....

[LadyDraco]

Yes  you can... Do not get it  on the  leaves..

[cookiedough]

I coulda swore the groundhog had given me the finger salute

Have apples and zuke and tomato in the
Have a heart. No joy

Been harvesting yellow squash and delicata  squash. There are many tomato but not read yet.  Green zukes done. Cukes died Some tomato have rot on ends
Beans full of flowers but are just takin their time

cucs for us are fussy as well some years GREAT tons of them, other years they die or get too many bugs on them and die, much like our zuchini.   green beans as well taking time to get done flowering out and grow which is very odd with all this rain and heat/humidity we have gotten this entire summer.

TATERS galore though went WAY overboard did over 100 seed potatoes already picked few copier paper boxes full and more to come not even half picked.  going to try blanching / steaming them and freezing them had good luck last year doing that so can make hashbrowns, etc. out of them later in the winter.  TATERS are the only thing that easily grows every year no problems, although have been seeing a few bugs in them now, we got them in ASAP in early April so are all ready to pick now.   we did 7x7 ft patch of peaches and cream sweet corn did best ever about 4-5 dozen ears of corn past 2 weeks and ripped up the stalks this past weekend so can replant green beans.

[DIGGER]

Another remedy is to get human hair from your local barber shop and scatter around.  Deer dont like human scent.

I feed my feeders at my deer lease year round.   My stand was about 40 yds from the border fence facing into our lease.   Had some good yrs there.   Then a guy across the fence put a stand right on the fence about 50 yds from me right on a game trail leading to my feeder.   He would park his truck about 70 yds from my stand in plain sight of my stand.   I left a note on his windshield asking him to park elsewhere.....so he started parking about 40 yards from my stand in plain site.   Not wanting this to escalate I moved my stand and feeder elsewhere....then got a big bag of human hair from my barber and crossed the fence and scattered around his hunting area.   Never heard him shoot the rest of the season.   The next year his stand had been moved. 

[LadyDraco]

My deer  don't  care..
Have a  few  that will walk up to ya..

[Oss]

put down the salts this morning. feathered it into the soil around the plants

I drove thru the worst downpour coming home  The thruway was stopped maybe 4 inches of rain and it is coming up here in another hour
It has been going w to e so we got lucky  so far

Put the pump in front of the garage so when the drain overflows I can start it and maybe escape all the water in the garage   Dang this weather

[GiG]

Big Hair LuLu conversates with bambis around here often, think they plotting something…
She braught home bags of hair to repel GHs under the barn, they just gave me the finger, kicked the hair out andand moved a bunch of the relatives in… but we haven’t seen a single bunny deer around

[cookiedough]

Big Hair LuLu conversates with bambis around here often, think they plotting something…
She braught home bags of hair to repel GHs under the barn, they just gave me the finger, kicked the hair out andand moved a bunch of the relatives in… but we haven’t seen a single bunny deer around

I tried my human head hair around the garden in a few spots, but seeing as how I cut my own hair and get only a small cupful of hair every 2-3 months of cutting my own hair, is not enough that the bunnies cared, just laughed at me.

[Oss]

try flashing them like gig  or use the leftover underwear on the coffee maker as a scarecrow

 

when they are rolling and laughing that is when ya hit em with the cane

[GiG]

It’s true I was a  born a GH very young, the ones under the barn wear a different size unmentionables than me.
It so happens that  Grizwold the wonder Terrier instinctively wants to get a GH  It’s something to see him attempt to run into the hole in pursuit  :roll but if he was to encounter one in the tunnel I’m afraid it would be advantage GH & poor old Grizwold would suffer a scratched up face & eyes, so his mom says stay away from there! He’s only trying to do his job, good boy  :2funny - the hole is the size of his head he still thinks he can run down there& get stuck & mauled  Maybe Mom do know best…