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  • From: "E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Deterring browsers with thorny living fences (wasRe: More on jujube)
  • Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:44:54 -0500

Maybe other deer have different habits and preferences, but our Central Texas Whitetails LOVE to rub their antlers against thorny species - that doesn't work!  Our small Prickly Ash is heavily damaged every year.  When you add the fact that most of these species grow slowly in this area, you inevitably wind up protecting the barrier for several years.  Faster-growing thorny species, such as Mesquites and Acacias are heavily browsed.  If you have to build a fence anyway, it doesn't make sense to plan a living barrier.
 
E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.biz
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 2:16 PM
Subject: [Livingontheland] Deterring browsers with thorny living fences (wasRe: More on jujube)

>
> I've been following this thread and was hoping that this site might help
> someone choose the right plantings to keep deer out.  ~Mitch
>  
 
According to Musser Forests catalog, hawthorns are proof against deer
(because of their thorns). Other thorny species one might use to deter
browsers: pyracantha, holly, rugosa rose, brambles, prickly ash, black
locust, honey locust. For those in closer to desert conditions:
organ-pipe cactus (and other cacti).

But of course this is all theoretical for me--I haven't made a
deer-proof living barrier to deer. But I'm leaning in that direction.
Big project, big gamble. Would love to see thoughts from others.

~Harvey


--
Harvey in northern Va
www.themodernhomestead.us

I truly believe that as long as we have not found peace with the soil, we won't find peace above the ground. That as long as we justify the exploitation of any organism, other exploitations will follow and we will remain parasites, consuming more than participating, and spiralling into entropy until we commit mass suicide.  ~Emilia Hazelip

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