Today in the garden

[garys]

Venison steak is great with vegetables.

[BuckeyeDennis]

Venison steak is great with vegetables.

[reible]

Deer are interesting animals. Got some left over chicken bones? Put them out and the deer eat them........ from what I understand that is some thing they do in the forest as well.

I use to have a picture of a deer with a chicken leg bone in it mouth, not sure if you left the meat on it if they would still eat them for them it's about the bone.

I had a friend at work who's wife raised Macaw's as a dealer in exotic birds. When they brought home a bucket of chicken the birds would go craze, they LOVED chicken!

Anyway glad were we live now we don't have deer, they can be quite the problem with garden and flowers.

Ed

[davebodner]

We used to toss fried chicken bones to the seagulls at the beach. They went crazy for them. I'm (slightly) more mature now.

[moggymatt]

My garden isn't very big and my soil is very full of gravel. I amend it a little each year. Our onions and beans always do well. Although only about 50% of our beans came up this year. Tomatoes usually do poorly for us so we don't plant too many but this year they are doing well. This is the first year we planted radish and I don't know if they are supposed to be this big but here is a picture:

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[ERLover]

Never seen a Radish that looks like, just the round ones but must be different verities. May need a chain saw to cut them though.

[rpd]

Not vegetable gardening, but I spent several hours on Saturday clearing some of the Himalayan blackberries that have invaded our yard.

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Next step will be to chip/shred them using my other favourite "old iron" machinery, my Mighty Mac.

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[Ed in Tampa]

The kids now throw alka seltzer to the sea gull to watch them blow up. Of course the law doesn't see the humor and I think it now brings a healthy fine and a jail sentence.

In northern Pennsylvania I watched deer easily clear 8 ft high fences to get into corn fields. The 8 foot height did not slow them down.

My daughter has deer that eat anything and everything. They eat trees down to the roots and with many flowers they even eat the roots. The deer there are problems every car in her family has hit a deer. her son, husband, daughter in law, daughter, son in law. I almost got one but I we missed by inches. She planted two $90 trees that lasted 1 day.

I have a buddy the lives in suburb of Cleveland a nod deer have become a very serious problem. He had about an acre and some night he can see as many as 27 deer in his backyard. They can't hunt the deer because they are too close to the houses but they have to come up with a solution.

[ERLover]

The kids now throw alka seltzer to the sea gull to watch them blow up. Of course the law doesn't see the humor and I think it now brings a healthy fine and a jail sentence.

In northern Pennsylvania I watched deer easily clear 8 ft high fences to get into corn fields. The 8 foot height did not slow them down.

My daughter has deer that eat anything and everything. They eat trees down to the roots and with many flowers they even eat the roots. The deer there are problems every car in her family has hit a deer. her son, husband, daughter in law, daughter, son in law. I almost got one but I we missed by inches. She planted two $90 trees that lasted 1 day.

I have a buddy the lives in suburb of Cleveland a nod deer have become a very serious problem. He had about an acre and some night he can see as many as 27 deer in his backyard. They can't hunt the deer because they are too close to the houses but they have to come up with a solution.

In Milwaukee and some of its more rural type suburbs,some parks and areas got deer infested, they bring in professional/licensed sharp shooter, with permission from the Dept of Natural Resources.

[swampgator]

Just to share some of my experiences in gardening: Blossom rot of a tomato, too much nitrogen or acid in the soil. To cure, as the tomatoes set on the vines, place some lime each week on the soil under the tomatoes.

Vine borers, this applies to cucumbers, squashes and melons. I have excellent results with Sevrin Dust at the base of the plant. There is a beautiful little fly, multicolored, that bores in the bend of the vine and lays eggs. The larvae matures into a worm that eats the interior of the vine, killing it. If caught early enough, you can slice the vine lengthwise and extract the worm. Cover that part (the surgery) with mud to allow vine to heal.

Chain link fences will not keep out rabbits. Deer can jump over most fences. Rabbits love peas, beans, eggplant and other such softer vegetables. I had them destroy my last two, so I buy the unlabeled stuff at the grocery or go to the farmers market. Reminds me, I have some freshly frozen peaches I think I will enjoy. I hope this info is helpful.

Steve, the old swampgator