Looking Good!

Our Strawberries look fantastic!  The plants are filling out, getting big and have oodles of flowers.  Fingers crossed the deer and rabbits stay clear, as well as the sneaky chipmunks and Catbirds that steal the fruit...

"What about these pants I got on, think they're okay?

UGH!!

Woke up to this today!

A visiting deer.

The little bugger ate three of our newly planted strawberry plants.

Of course I am NOT please but fortunate that only three were eaten and not the whole lot of fifteen. 

This looks like the only damage done on this visit.  Our other vegetable gardens were spared, thankfully.  However, many of our hosta plants along the back lot have been eaten down to nothing.

There's just no stopping them...

"What about these pants I got on, think they're okay?" -  My Cousin Vinny Deer Scene

"V" Is For Victory!

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We no longer have a problem with our strawberries disappearing and/or being half eaten and picked through.

 

It's weird, not sure what happen and why this pillaging just all of a sudden *SNAP* stopped but I sure am thankful!

Strawberry Damage

Emilie was excited because she saw a deer in the neighbor's back yard the other day and she got to watch it for a little while before it wandered off. We've seen many, many deer in both the neighbors yard as well as ours but typically it's in the fall and winter. Seldom do we see them in the summer. Of course just because we don't see them doesn't mean they're not there.

Only when I was out in the back yard later that same day did I notice and come to realize that the deer had been in our back yard too and not just passing by but dining on our strawberry plants - not the berries but the leafs! You can see the damage that was done in the above picture. This is one of our raised strawberry beds with the front half of the plants completely eaten. This just adds to our strawberry battles; we have chipmunks and Grey Cat bird dining on the plump red berries and now deer eating the foliage, alas…