Wildlife crossing
Can you see the baby
turkeys in the photo above? I took this picture at the furthest extent
of my camera's zoom, but maybe the image below will help see that the
entire family was literally strolling down the road right by our place.
I
don't mind the turkeys, but the deer are getting voracious as we slowly
work in fence-building episodes around our various other commitments.
While I regret the repeated losses, I can now answer my
own question quite
easily. Yes, deer love asparagus and cucumbers and raspberries and
pretty much everything else imaginable. Hopefully our fall garden will
be fully fenced and fully safe.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Wildlife crossing
You might change your mind about those turkeys if yours are like mine. Some morning later on in the season you might go out to the garden to get a breakfast musk melon only to find nice neat round holes bored through them - and the seeds inside missing! They seem to be just as voracious with melons as the deer are with everything else. 'Possums like melons, too. This year, I'm putting out some solar powered motion sensing lights for them. At least they can see where they're going if it doesn't actually scare them off.
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Tim Inman
— Sat Jun 16 09:21:09 2018
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