Cardboard deer
Last year, the acorns
fell on the hillsides and the deer stayed out of our valley. But we've
had lots of deer sightings this fall already. So I'm hoping to snag one
of the three does who have been occasionally making their way into the
garden.
First step --- pay
attention to their patterns. Due to goats, my usual spot (which allowed
me to "hunt" from the couch) no longer sees much deer activity. Instead,
I've been spotting the nibblers mornings and evenings on the other side
of the chicken pastures when I go to check on our flock.
Friday, Mark helped me
set up a cardboard deer around where I've been sighting the real ones.
Then I blew through a bunch of bullets to remember that I need to aim a
little above and to the right of my sight and that I do better if
leaning against something solid (like the coop) to brace myself against
the gun recoil.
All told, I bagged that cardboard deer a little over half the time. Here's hoping the real event goes as smoothly.
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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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Hi Anna and Mark,
That used to be an old joke around the engineering rooms :).
I hope you get a nice one :).
Have you done any recent soil tests? Maybe you could share your soil test history?
Also, have you done any soil profile tests?
John