My Straw Bale Garden Experiment

Deer damage and replanting 


June 26, 2007

                
This is what a deer will do to a pepper plant, the top and the peppers are gone.   You can see the wheat is doing well at the rear of the bale.

Replanting, with some new Jalapeños. The biggest one is a Mucho Nacho (may be Jalapeño). I also found a nice Red Cherry hot pepper plant.   I replanted the damaged plants amid some Azaleas.   The deer may get them again, but if not...

   

  Red Cherry (hot pepper plant)             'Mucho Nacho' (may be Jalapeño)


  
 The Mucho Nacho dwarfs the new Jalapeños on either side


 
We're trying these baskets to keep deer from eating the tender young plants.   Each evening, we'll put them over the plants.  So far, the deer seem to be reluctant to poke their heads inside the  'tomato baskets'. We put our 'Mucho Nacho' inside one of them. 

A friend suggested I try Moth Balls, to repel deer.  I'm going to try some. If you have any ideas, or know of something that works, please let me know.

I'll try to keep updating the photos, about every 3 or 4 weeks, to show the progress of my experiment. 

Thanks for visiting, 

God bless, 

Steve (Pappaw)

Web sites I found for information are:

Nichols Garden Nursery

Carolina Country

Pioneer Thinking

The Decatur Daily (Living Today July 30, 2004)

Dave's Garden

Beginner Gardening

I Can Garden

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