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Gardening

GreatGazoo

(4,152 posts) Thu Jun 18, 2015, 08:12 PM Jun 2015

About 70% of my plants got nibbled on in the last 2 days. [View all]

I have seven 40-foot rows of beans and edamame going and they are mostly nibbled to about 6 inches. Like a giant deer lawn mower passed over the patch.

I have been planting successively one 40-foot row about every 7 days. I am trying to learn more about timing beans, seed to harvest, etc. Comparing germination methods, soil amendments, spacing, varietals. Not sure how to handicap the deer damage but I guess it is time to learn more about deer!

A frustrating year so far.

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About 70% of my plants got nibbled on in the last 2 days. [View all] GreatGazoo Jun 2015 OP

I can relate. lpbk2713 Jun 2015 #1

My roses (leaves mostly) elleng Jun 2015 #2

I don't mind contributing. I plant extra and expect to share some but wow GreatGazoo Jun 2015 #8

Sounds like what happened when I tried planting glass gem corn. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jun 2015 #3

It may take a full on cage to stop them GreatGazoo Jun 2015 #10

Do they like garlic? Couple of bulbs can make a good concentrate - would be interesting jtuck004 Jun 2015 #4

I have seen some on the internet who advocate male human urine or other human scents GreatGazoo Jun 2015 #9

Where are you? Where I live in PA, the deer are so bad that we do vegetable gardens enough Jun 2015 #5

I'm on two farms in Eastern NYS GreatGazoo Jun 2015 #11

Tall fence. Mr.Bill Jun 2015 #6

Woodchucks will do that too. postulater Jun 2015 #7

Some of these ideas might help. PADemD Jun 2015 #12

"Deer-Out," Dearie NJCher Jun 2015 #13

Liquid Fence works great too. nt B2G Jul 2015 #14