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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Title: Re: [NAFEX] Grow fruit higher than deer can reach?

I already do that with some of my things.  It does work.  The trick is to protect the trunk so the bucks in velvet don't use the trunk to rub their antlers on.  
    On the other hand, if you don't have really intense deer problems, spraying egg as a repellent works well as long as you keep it up.  6 eggs in water, run in a blender.  Pour into a three gallon sprayer and top with water.  Spray on a dry day.  Works until two or three heavy rains, or the shoots are 6 inches beyond the sprayed part.    If deer pressure isn't really intense, they will leave the whole sprayed area alone.
> From: Charles Paradise <machelp@attglobal.net>
> Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 13:19:20 -0500
> To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: [NAFEX] Grow fruit higher than deer can reach?

> Suppose I conceded that in a particular orchard deer would occasionally 
> get in and browse my proposed planting of apple and pear trees.
>
> You may have seen pictures of trees grown on the African savanna, where 
> the tree is leafless up to about eight feet high, then the foliage 
> grows with the bottom branches looking like they are growing flat on a 
> tabletop, because the foraging animals below have gnawed everything 
> they could reach up to.  So the first 8 feet of the growing tree has 
> been conceded to the wild animals in Africa.
>
> For an example of how this browsed tree looks in Africa, see:
> http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/acacia_tortillis.htm
>
> I'm asking for opinions about the practicality of growing apples and 
> pears on standard seedling rootstocks, and trimming so the first 
> branches occur several feet off the ground - not easy, I know, for 
> pruning and harvesting - but as a proposed way of avoiding the 
> necessity of repelling deer.
>
> So, what's your opinion?    Possible?   Practical or impractical?
>
> Charlie Paradise
> zone 5/Massachusetts
>
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