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- From: "Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu" <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu>
- To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Deer and European Plums
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:02:29 -0500
Regional &/or individual preferences must vary
considerably.
The damned hooved rats here are voracious browsers of
my young pear, pecan, and hickory grafts; they
frequently consume new growth on persimmon grafts -
though they rarely bother the same sort of growth on
seedling rootstock shoots, and literally demolish any
unprotected small apple graftlings.
I wish they would eat plums or cherries and leave the
desirable, productive stuff alone.
I never had any significant deer problems here until
the summer of 2007 - we'd had a disastrous freeze at
Easter, followed by a prolonged severe drought,
coupled with a major outbreak of Epizootic
Hemorrhagic Disease in the deer population. Two
orphaned fawns spent the summer in orchard - I'd see
them at all times of the day; guess I should have
killed the blasted things while they were still
wearing their spots - but I didn't, and I'm fairly
certain that they're the progenitors of or the main
marauders wreaking havoc now.
Lucky Pittman
Hopkinsville, KY
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[NAFEX] Deer and European Plums,
Steve, 07/19/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Deer and European Plums,
Lon J. Rombough, 07/19/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Deer and European Plums, Steve, 07/19/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Deer and European Plums,
nottke1, 07/19/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Deer and European Plums, Steve, 07/19/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Deer and European Plums,
Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu, 07/20/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Deer and European Plums, Hilborn . E, 07/20/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Deer and European Plums,
Lon J. Rombough, 07/19/2009
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