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This ought to rile up the mindless inlanders.
Onions, cajun spice, 6 rounds, BLAM! Should be easy to get at least
two of them.
You like them young, eh?

I like them two ways, regardless of age:

1) Miles away from my garden
or
2) Dead, any way possible.

And, I live in an place where the same houses have been in place for 50
years. So, it's not a matter of encroaching on their land. Or, maybe it
is, but nothing's changed since 1956 when this development was created,
except that hunting was banned in a large nearby park area.

We have much larger ones, probably a different species, wandering
through our yard from time to time. Rarely one will stop to munch on
some of my wife's garden flowers, but it doesn't upset her.

We also have wandering raccoons, foxes, possums, pheasants, wild
turkeys, squirrels, birds, and rarely, feral cats. No wandering dogs,
though. Not allowed. And no hunters, of course. Verboten.

Here, the deer eat everything. When I first looked at the neighborhood, I
that most houses had no gardens whatsoever, other than some foundation
shrubs. Pretty boring. I saw lots of very elderly people out for walks,
and figured this explained the lack of plantings. Maintaining gardens
isn't easy when you have trouble bending, ya know?

Wrong theory. It was the deer. Many people have given up the battle.

So far, I've figured out that they won't touch rhubarb, barberry (a great
educational tool for wayward dogs), marigolds, basil, broccoli (and
others in the cabbage family) and rosemary. Everything else if fair game.
Daylilly buds are eaten the day before they're about to open. Rosebuds,
too. Matter of fact, the prior owners of the house planted a climbing
rose with huge thorns. The deer eat the stems, thorns and all. Robodeer!

I finally fenced the vegetable garden, which I was avoiding because it
just creates one more place I have to edge. But, they were eating the
leaves off the pole beans (at 6 feet up the pole), the bell peppers, the
tomato plant leaves, etc etc......

Unlike some people, your deer prefer a healthy diet.

I once clipped a list of available salad dressings to the tomato cage, but I
got no response. I guess they're into the low-fat thing.