Good morning Diane.
Bambi ate my zinnias, my beet tops, and even tried several radishes, yet has left the nasturtiums, phlox, lobelia and geraniums alone. So far, anyways. I am now going to spray everything I grow with a *Sunlight* dish soap/hot peppers mix to discourage this behaviour.
This is after he ate some tomato plants, some potato plants, and the vast majority of my sunflowers. I am growing impatient with the miserable so-and-so.
Some of the pennyroyal *MAY* finally be showing, but the germination rate is disappointing.
As to the radishes, I have already picked through two batches, and the third just provided me with several larger bulbs over 2” diameter. Unfortunately, a couple of them had internal visitors, even though the soil has not grown anything but a juniper and a pine tree for the last 20+ years. Oh well.
Off to the garden centre that’s an hour away, I forgot a flat of annuals there yesterday afternoon. Then I get to put all the replacement plants in the ground upon my return.
Have a great weekend.
Sounds like a busy and productive day! Sorry about the deer damage; many here can commiserate with you on that!
When I put the two Beagles out for their last ‘potty break’ of the evening, they found an Opossum to harass for 30 minutes or so. Then Mr. O got sick of them and went up a tree and that was the end of that.
Never a dull moment around here!
My beets and radishes in pots are surrounded by my cannabis plants and the deer stay away. They can’t abide the stench of the Cannabis plants. I’m starting another pot of radishes today. I planted beets and basil in another pot that is hidden behind the irises next to the front porch. Deer ignore the irises after spring ends.
Here is a decent list of veggies deer eat & don’t eat. It’s not totally accurate - I have had them reach over a fence & munch the tops out of tomato plants & they ate on your tomatoes too. They haven’t eaten my basil (yet) but it’s in my herb garden in the middle of a lot of stuff they don’t like - actually, they’ve never eaten my basil in years past. They like radish tops a lot so I put a wire screen over the radishes & that keeps the deer off of them. I am a little surprised they haven’t chewed on some exposed spaghetti squash that grew outside of my fencing, especially when the squash were smaller.
I am growing dahlias this year & have them inside my garden fence - deer do eat them although they are not a favorite. I have never had them eat zinnias or marigolds. which I typically grow outside the fencing.
Deer Resistant Vegetables
https://wirelessdeerfence.com/deer-resistant-vegetables/