Oh Deer

Now that the weather has been really nice and warm, we notice more and more deer are visiting our backyard.  We don't mind them visiting but we don't appreciate them eating all the leaves on the cedar trees that my husband planted a couple of years ago.  The trees are just starting to grow with some new really fresh leaves, so we understand them snipping here and there.  But lately, we noticed that these trees are starting to look bare and unhealthy.  Yesterday, while we were visiting our next door neighbor, we saw a deer in their backyard.  She looked pretty full (possibly carrying a baby).  Our neighbors was just letting her chew on the leaves on the tree.  But sometimes, the deer choses to eat away the beautiful flowers on their hanging basket.  Once we got home, I thought of checking to see if they picked on my new plants.  Sure enough, the new reddish plant I just added, the leaves are all chewed up.  Now I am not liking the deer that comes by to visit.  My husband will need to add some netting or some type of wire fence to protect the new plants, plus all our vegetable garden bed.  The problem is that we can't be outdoors all the time to protect our plants.  That's why most of the time, all we can say is "Oh Deer".

A variety of Kale plants

Some leaf lettuce and one tomatillo plant

Before the deer had dinner on my reddish plant.

After - notice the leaves on the reddish plant.

If you can see the deer heading towards the cedar trees, notice the difference
between the dark green trees and the smaller ones looking so unhealthy and dry.

I have two of this pot in front of our home and hopefully the deer won't like it.