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  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] What fruit trees won't the deer eat?
  • Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 08:35:57 -0500


On Jan 16, 2005, at 7:35 AM, Pat Meadows wrote:

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:45:14 EST, you wrote:

I have a lot of deer here in central and have never had problems with them
eating gooseberries or currants.


SOMETHING ate all the leaves off my gooseberries last year,
overnight. I don't think it was a deer, though: they
always seem to eat the twigs too. I think it was a
woodchuck. The leaves grew back and the gooseberries are
OK.

I had stupidly figured that they were safe because they were
INSIDE our (perimeter) fence. Nope. Now they each have
their own individual circle of fencing, as well as being
inside the perimeter fence.

Pat


I second Ed's suggestion that it was currant worms. I have only mild deer pressure, but I have hordes of hungry smaller beasts, including woodchucks, rabbits, red&grey squirrels, chipmunks, raccoons, skunks, and numerous birds. Nothing has touched my currants except for aphids and occasionally other insects.

Ginda





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