deer

• June 23, 2013

  Garden Wars: Identifying the Culprits

  Somebody keeps eating my corn; I don’t think I’ll be getting any this year.. It’s happening again. Someone is snacking in my garden. Snacking on tender green shoots that should be growing into corn, beans and sunflowers; snacking on the tops of carrots; snacking on peas; and even snacking on a potato plant. I’ve been…

• July 15, 2012

  Oh, Deer! (and other tales from the garden)

  I have had a new visitor to my vegetable garden this year: deer. We have a field-ish type area behind our house, scattered with trees, and there are deer that live back there. From time to time we’ll see them in the backyard, but until this year, they’d stayed clear of my garden. A couple…