Poor, Poor Peppers

The deer. Ate my pepper plants!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Tonight, like every other night, I check on my garden and one of my poor little pots of peppers seedlings were 'missing'. So, I looked closer.... and closer.... and closer. Yep! The little stinkers nipped them right off. I only have 3 pots of vegetables. Only 1 pot of the peppers didn't have a cage. Well now it does and hopefully they grow back. The leaves were just nibbled off, not pulled out, so I guess we'll see how it works!

Oh, and I got a fence up!! (I= mostly Jeremy) and he has to go in tomorrow for a tetanus shot. But the fence blog needs pictures and it's dark and late. Will post again on Thursday!


The little pot on the left is the former-pepper pot. The big pot is tomatoes.



Deer, me!

I love-love apple trees. I only have 2 but the deer think they are their trees. So I'm going to either have to set a chair and sit next to my trees all night or figure out a better way to keep the deer away.

Once again there are only a few options to deal with critters. Unfortunately I can't build a fortress around each one until the deer decide to leave them alone. But it is an option.  I had been sprinkling Cayenne pepper or Chili pepper on the leaves and around the base. Unfortunately it has rained twice since the last application and it looks like the deer were at it again last night! There is always the Invisible Fence spray but still not sure.

It's not that the deer don't have any food either, we live in the woods, in Northern Minnesota and there are thousands of flowers, plants and trees blooming at the moment.  I went out and sprinkled again and will put up a picture this weekend of what my poor, sad little trees look like naked.  Needless to say I am looking forward to October when everyone up in this neck of the woods are hunting deer. ;)

Realistically, we will probably end up putting small fencing around the trees and some extra organic mulch.  Will have to wait until next for apples I guess, bring on spring 2012!
 

A little terror on hooves!


 

Don't be fooled by the cute little face! That's a vicious apple-blossom-eater!


 

The family of culprits!



(Okay fine, I love the deer... I just wish they didn't love my apple trees!)

Oh, Deer!

Over the weekend I finally had my first deer sighting in our yard. Jeremy has seen the deer before and I had seen tracks, but no deer!  They must have known they would have to pose for pictures and stayed away as long as they could...

We have pretty little deer. Both cleaned up some bird seed for us under the feeders and pulled at some of the grass showing.  I'm guessing they are getting hungry, and ready for spring like the rest of us!