[NAFEX] blackberry plants and deer
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dockw at aol.com
Fri Feb 2 14:44:59 EST 2007
Without deer fencing you won't be growing blackberries of the thornless sort.....they eat everything here with leaves
Karl Olson Zone 5 SW Connecticut
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From: treetaxi at mcleodusa.net
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Sent: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] blackberry plants and deer
They have broused mine.
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[mailto:nafex-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of drbeckl
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 11:13 PM
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Subject: [NAFEX] blackberry plants and deer
Hi;
I have bot 25 blackberry bare-root plants last fall, and have them
heeled-in
the soil to plant in a new garden area in March or April. They are all
thornless varieties: Arapaho, Navaho, Ouichita, Triple crown, Apache,
Chester.
I am going to plant them in a old hayfield, that is not yet fenced in.
[
against deer. ]
There are deer around this area that come in and eat at nite. I have
noticed that deer here do not seem to eat the wild blackberry plants
that
grow around here; but the wild b.b.'s have thorns on them. They also
mite
taste differently to deer than tame b.b.'s.
I also have another main garden area fenced in with a electric fence to
protect the food crops from the deer; but there is no room in that plot
for
the blackberries.
My question is: Will the deer damage the thornless blackberry plants ?
i.e.: Do deer like to eat thornless blackberry plants ? Should I fence
in
the blackberry patch before I do the planting of the b.b. plants ?
I was hoping to postpone fencing in the blackberry plot until fall,
2007;
if at all possible. But, if deer do like to eat thornless blackberry
plants, then I will have to do the fencing before I set the bare-root
plants
out.
Also; do I have to worry about field mice girdling the b.b. plants
lower
stems ??? Should I put plastic, or duct tape, around the lower stems
to
protect them from being girdled by the field mice ??
thanks for any help,
dan in WVa, usda zone 6.
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