BS: Where have all the flowers gone?

Subject: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: olddude
Date: 07 May 11 - 01:50 PM

I will tell ya where, the deer atem ... every stinking one of of em
yup ... planted my arse off for deer food

Dang ... someone shoot me now ...

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: gnu
Date: 07 May 11 - 01:53 PM

I know what I'd be shootin... get out the pancakes and maple slurpup Ma. We're havin steaks tanight.

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 07 May 11 - 01:53 PM

or maybe shoot the deer!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 07 May 11 - 02:02 PM

One of my daughters (in BC) has her shrubs eaten down to ground level by them.

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 07 May 11 - 02:19 PM

Wee on some rags, and once dried, hang them on waist-high sticks or canes. The deer don't like the smell of (male) wee, it scares them.

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 07 May 11 - 03:27 PM

All our dandelion heads have gone to clocks....




Every one!!!



Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: gnu
Date: 07 May 11 - 03:41 PM

Eliza... I used to piss on the foliage around my camp. Waist high is about right but for bears, as high as you can is best. Five feet or so is best for bears. Pisses them off well.

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 07 May 11 - 03:46 PM

Dearest gnu, I'm giggling a lot here! I can't, I'm afraid, wee terribly high, but it's okay, because the only bear here in Norfolk is my Teddy bear!

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: olddude
Date: 07 May 11 - 04:09 PM

I will have to drink a lot of beer to wizz that high ... my goodness er ahh I suppose if I was a long as a garden hose then I could or use a ladder ..

Wow gnu ... the mudz women must like you ... er ah sorry ... er ah

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: gnu
Date: 07 May 11 - 04:24 PM

Oh come on, Dan... you can piss that high... unless yer prostate is enlarged. If it is, may I suggest an old folk remedy... piss in yer beer bottle and pour it on the foliage. But if you ever get a ladder and drink enough beer, be sure to get it on video eh? Could be worth ten large on the TV show Funniest Dumb Videos.

Eliza, I knew a lass... ahhh, nevermind.

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 07 May 11 - 04:26 PM

LOL! Naughty gnu!

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: gnu
Date: 07 May 11 - 04:50 PM

Thanks. I do what I can.

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: frogprince
Date: 07 May 11 - 05:23 PM

I was gonna say that I'm afraid it's been a few years since I could get any 5 feet up without the pour-it-out-of-a-bottle trick; but then again I guess I could just hold the end of "it" 5 or 6 feet up and do it that way....

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: olddude
Date: 07 May 11 - 06:06 PM

LOL froggie, you the man !! ...
somehow this had something to do with flowers ... I forgot what the thread was about ... LOL

now what the heck are women suppose to do ...?
maybe pour beer into their guy I guess

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: gnu
Date: 07 May 11 - 06:18 PM

Dan... you've never met a lot of women have you? But, that's probably a good thing. No need for any pissing contests.

I can think of a number of women I wish I had never met. But, I suppose it's the same for everyone.... girls... guys... there's always a pisser in the bunch.

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: olddude
Date: 07 May 11 - 06:52 PM

LOL GNU

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 08 May 11 - 04:07 AM

Here in Norfolk, a man desperate for the loo will say "I could pee over nine hedges!" and a woman, "...under nine bridges".
But it's only men's wee which scares deer away. Apparently, they quite like ladies' wee!

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: Stringsinger
Date: 08 May 11 - 02:01 PM

Not decriminalized, yet, every one.

More deer!

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: GUEST,Bambi
Date: 08 May 11 - 05:53 PM

Dear Dan,

It was all pretty good, but I would be forever grateful if you would include more Day Lilies and Hostas. Them's my favorites.

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 09 May 11 - 12:00 AM

Here's a neat trick. You collect yer pee in bottles, then load it into them giant squirt guns or spray bottles and aim it up real high and squirt it all over the tree trunks, bushes, etc. Keeps the bears, deer, coyotes, and wolves off yer property real good, I hear. I'm not in the country that much, but I got some friends that live out in the boodocks, and one of 'em swears by this method.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: olddude
Date: 09 May 11 - 08:51 AM

LOL, well Chongo ya can swing from a tree and I can't and do the high altitude wizz fer me. That is if you were a kind and decent monkey !!

Hey Strings, I will send some your way ... I got lots a deer .. I got big ones, small ones, and everything in between. I keep them well fed with flowers ...

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 09 May 11 - 01:56 PM

Old dude, I sympathize.

My sister-in-law lives in a woodsy area of South Carolina where deer eat everything. She does grow gardenia bushes (right next to the house) and I believe she says deer don't eat hellebores. Hellebores are nice.

Back in Merry Old England, the rich figured out how to cope with deer. They built high brick walls around their gardens. Expensive, you bet.

And have you heard of the ha-ha? The ha-ha was a stone wall 8 feet high which kept deer from moving from the parklike estate grounds to gardens and terraces near the stately home. Again, mucho dinero, and no doubt dangerous to humans. And their deer were probably smaller than ours.

I put no faith in the urine idea. The deer can probably smell us and the places we've been gardening, quite well all the time.

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 09 May 11 - 03:18 PM

Deer can be a terrible nuisance, but they are beautiful. In my last house, the garden adjoined a field and woodland with no fence, just a shallow ditch. I got muntjac, normal fallow and black fallow deer, all munching away merrily on the flowers and veg. I also got bitten by ticks; VERY dodgy, as they carry Lyme disease. The doc tested me and luckily it was negative. Our present house has a fence!
Like all 'deterrents', the wee idea might work for a bit, but all creatures become accustomed and ignore such things. Maybe if one changed the donor regularly?? (Sign at gate:- Gentlemen, please wee in this bottle. Thank you.")

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: olddude
Date: 09 May 11 - 03:46 PM

Bambi
you got it hon, I will also give you some roses :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: Janie
Date: 09 May 11 - 09:38 PM

Eat more deer.

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 10 May 11 - 07:10 AM

You could always climb and stand on the top of a step ladder and wee just like the fountain in Belgium (or is it Brussels?). Take care though of any suspicious police passing in the neighbourhood, it might be very hard to explain that one away!

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: olddude
Date: 10 May 11 - 04:51 PM

Get the BBQ sauce, yup deer steak on the grill sounds good LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 10 May 11 - 05:06 PM

I`d suggest a marinade for 12 hours in the fridge followed by the grill--for the deer meat, that is. Bucks in rutting season taste terrible, imo. (Same for bull moose.)

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 11 May 11 - 04:04 AM

Nope, the ha-ha was (is) a deep ditch to separate one's lawns from one's parkland, planned in such a way that it was not visible from the house. This gave the impression of an unbroken lawn stretching into the distance.

Works pretty well at Dobro Towers.............

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 11 May 11 - 06:13 AM

A 'borrowed landscape' in fact, Rusty. That's just the effect at my last house, the ditch couldn't be seen, and it looked as if I owned all the fields beyond!

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: olddude
Date: 11 May 11 - 09:55 AM

Well I guess I will have to propose a mudcat pee fest at my my place. I will supply the beer.

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: kendall
Date: 11 May 11 - 04:19 PM

I like to watch Deer. As for ticks, I've never seen a tick on a deer, but the Deer Mice have plenty.

Bears? Best way to get rid of them is to mark a tree in their territory. They stretch up as high as they can and claw a tree. When another Bear comes by it will try to reach higher than the one who made that mark. If he can, he will stay. If he can't he will leave knowing that a bigger Bear is in the area. That's how they avoid fighting.

What I do is take a step ladder and an iron garden rake, climb up high on the ladder and claw the tree above the marks the bear made. He left thinking there was a 20 foot Bear in the area.

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 11 May 11 - 04:29 PM

Here in UK in some areas (including mine) deer ticks hosting Lyme disease lurk in long grass, and can attach themselves to passing cats. They're quite distinctive in appearance. My cats brought them in and two attached themselves to my leg. The bites form a 'bull's-eye' pattern on the skin. Lyme disease is nasty, can have long-term effects on organs and joints.
Luckily, no bears here! I've watched documentaries about bears in North America, it seems they can be terribly dangerous and unpredictable.

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 11 May 11 - 07:09 PM

Lots of chicken wire. Where I gardened in Pennsylvania, every fall we wrapped almost everything in chicken wire: holy, yucca, evergreen shrubbery, mock orange, .... And an 8 foot fence around the young golden willow.

What did not get eaten: Hellebore, hosta, iris, day lily, and the bloody weeds!

The, now 84, owner has been gardening there for 60 years. She has counted as many as 60 deer in the field in front of her home. And still she gardens on.

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: Janie
Date: 11 May 11 - 07:44 PM

Remembering the "miles" of deer fence Bobert wrote about putting up elsewhere.

(And he thought deer were a problem there in Luray...)

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 11 May 11 - 08:00 PM

There is a wonderful arboretum near Philly which is surrounded in its entirety by 10 foot fencing! Apparently, a couple of bachelor farmers developed it with marvellous rare plants, trees, shrubs, a long time ago and left it in perpetuity. It is wonderful! The fence is amazing. The name escapes me.

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: olddude
Date: 11 May 11 - 09:10 PM

They don't like weeds ... now that I have ... nope they leave them untouched ... everything else ... must be yummy ... the critters are amazing ... and this is my front yard. Out back, there is five solid miles no kidding of grape vines, woods, fruit trees ... you name it ... it belongs to many farms one after the other. nope gotta come in my front yard for my flowers the wife made me plant ...

yeeee yah

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the flowers gone?
From: Janie
Date: 11 May 11 - 10:09 PM

Caviar for deer!

White-tailed deer. Did alright in eastern woodland, but even better in cleared land. Adaptable creatures.