[Magdalen] Cowboy pizza.

[Marion Thompson]

Well, there's Critter Ridder, but with all the snow falls and 
accummulations and everything, the chicken wire is much more fool-proof 
over a long winter -- when i stir my lazy self to protect the shrubs.  
It's not like I don't have the lengths on hand from previous years!

Marion, a pilgrim

On 3/11/2015 2:55 PM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
> What kind of stinky stuff do you spray to discourage the bunnies? I'd send my coyote over your way, but I haven't seen him in several months. And besides, you'd have to promise to send him back...
>
>> On Mar 11, 2015, at 1:38 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> We have deer that occasionally come up into the yard and nibble various
>> things....they think some of my heucheras are a salad course,
>> apparently......and we spray with stinky stuff to keep them away. It's
>> pretty effective. They haven't been around much this year, I guess because
>> we've had enough rain that their usual food sources have been plentiful.
>>
>> Now if the dog down the hill would just stay the heck out of my yard. We
>> got an air horn and I found out this morning he doesn't like it at all
>> <evil chuckle> I'm carrying pepper spray in case he gets any closer. His
>> people have disregarded polite requests.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Deer aren't a problem in this garden, but rabbits.  Oy!  Bring on the
>>> coyotes, poor things that everyone hates or fears but not me!
>>>
>>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>>
>>>> On 3/9/2015 9:46 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Here in Pennsylvania, it's the White-tailed Deer. There are seemingly few
>>>> rabbits (I had those by the ton in Wisconsin). Deer will eat anything when
>>>> hungry, and that usually happens with deep snow. I don't see gross damage
>>>> from animals, yet. I am worried about so many of my exotic shrubs and trees
>>>> that are of borderline hardiness, however. There's been nothing like the
>>>> -24 F we had here about 1989, but even so, there will probably be damage.
>>>> Incidentally, the deer love members of the "cedar" family (more accurately
>>>> Thuja genus), but they don't touch Western Red Cedar (Thuja plicata). If
>>>> you like this group, it would be the one to plant. It does get big...very
>>>> big. David Strang. .
>>>