That's sad, Chuck. I had the same thing happen to a white oak we had been
nurturing.
I put one of our home built tomato cages - a cylinder 0f 4" X 4" wire
fencing about 14"
in diameter and 48" tall - around it, and two years later its growing big
and tall.
There's no hope for the tulips they chomp though.
Only after a snow did we relize how close to the hous they come.. and how
many come!
Rick
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If I'd have had a gun yesterday I'd have blasted the doe that was in our
> back yard. There is a small herd of about a dozen deer that are
> frequently outside our fence in back in the neighbor's yard.
>
> Yesterday morning at about 5am I noted a single doe on our side of the
> fence calmly chomping on some wild greenery growing along the fence. It
> was only later in the day that I discovered she had also neatly lopped
> off the tops of two maple seedlings in the middle of the yard that I
> have been nursing along since they first sprouted in spring of 2011.
> They just happened to sprout where my wife and I had determined we
> needed a large shade tree. I built a little wall of rocks to surround
> them and protect them from the lawn mower. I've watered and fertilized
> them and plucked the grass from around them to give them every chance to
> grow. They were very slow to start but a few weeks ago they started
> producing some very nice (and apparently tasty) leaves. Yesterday...
> chomp, chomp... both had all their leaves bitten off at about 8" above
> ground level. Arggh!
>
> The larger one still has two tiny leaf buds each less than the size of a
> BB. I still have hope it will survive.
>
> Venison spiedies anyone?
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiedie>
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 6/15/2012 7:39 PM, Rick Beckrich wrote:
> > Last summer's twins all grown up. Taken this afternoon.
> >
> >
> http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=183275&ppuser=20714
> >
> > http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=183274
> >
> > Their mom has at least one new one that I caught a glimpse of this
> morning... That's what got to thinking
> >
> > I should get the big "gun" set up... Glad I did.
> >
> > Hopefully, we'll get some spotted fawn shots soon.
> >
> > Rick
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