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  • From: "Dave & Katharine Campbell" <dave.kathy AT att.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Planting Sweet Potatoes
  • Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:40:51 +0000

Wrong!  I set out my sweet potato slips about 2 weeks ago and THE VERY NEXT NIGHT the deer came thouugh and neatly nipped off about a third of them!  Moral: put out went the wire deer guards right away!
==davec / Tiffin IA / Zone 5
-------------- Original message from Allan Balliett <aballiett AT frontiernet.net>: --------------


> >One thing we do have a clear memory of is the deer eating off the sweet
> >potato leaves.
>
> hopefully, they won't do that at the slip stage! I'm going to try one
> of those Premier 2-layered fences around the sweet potatoes and a
> small bean field. Should work, if I can get it up before they start
> grazing in there... I planted today, without plastic
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