I hear they learn to like capsacin. Yay, hot sauce. In fact, after a month or so, they get used to any flavor, the nursery people tell me.
The fence would be a way to go, but there are problems with it. I don't want a dog. We travel a lot. And anyway I just don't want a dog. I have friends with the kind of fence that keeps dogs in with an electrical current or something and they have two dogs (or did until one died recently) and still their gardens got eaten. Then they had an actual fence put around a huge area. Still, the deer got in. It's better now that they've installed one of those grids in their drive that deer can't walk on so they can't come in that way, but the fence isn't completely reliable, I forget why. And by the time they were finished, they'd probably spent close to 30k. Those are really expensive flowers. She's a professional landscaper/gardener so has more motivation to keep on fighting, and spending money on her garden, than I do.
The man who mows our lawn suggested a black net fence you can hardly see, but they could come down the drive or over the stone fences by the road, so that's not practical.
Clearly, I'm not going to have a garden.
We haven't even mentioned Lyme disease. It's really a crisis, this deer situation. Children on this road aren't allowed outside without special gear on and close post-play examination for ticks. We can't picnic on the grass outside any more. Any time I go out into the yard, I have do a tick search. It's awful. |
