Texasbuckeye
WKR
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Deer university is the bomb. Lots of great research based info that they talk about in practical methods to implement.
I 100% for screening cover on edges prefer Switch Grass or even actual bushy native plantings. I can get rid of it in No time if I want to and would not be stuck with pick up sticks hanging 3-5ft off the ground. Select trees and open up the ground where desired for undergrowth development and control invasive growth.
Ha! He'd be welcome to ride in my truck!Here is what a good buck looks like in the area. Not giants by any means.
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Around here guys run at least one hot wire if not 2 hot wires staggered a few feet apart- one low and one higher to keep the deer out. If you have a lot of turkeys they will demolish bean plots tooBetter plan on more than a 6 foot fence to keep deer out. I used a 6 foot fence around a small plot of fruit trees once. The does thought it was great. They jumped the fence, browsed on the trees, and gave birth to their fawns inside the enclosure. I had to catch the fawns (which mostly involved untangling them from the fence) and released them outside the enclosure while the does kept making short charges at me.
For us eagle beans would keep trying to grow even under heavy browse pressure but not a single plant ever came close to making a bean. They were kept browsed well below 8" and most were under 4". This is why folks recommend evaluating the whole neighborhood rather than just your property to better understand the big picture of what the biggest holes in the bucket are. Small plots of highly preferred food are virtually impossible to grow here without electric fence to get them to a growth standpoint where they can keep up with browse pressure and in some areas even that isnt enough depending on the plot size.Well I went to check on the plantings this weekend. Not good news. Deer have eaten about 75% of the beans and bitten the tops off around 50% of the sunflower plants. May of the beans are still alive just eaten down or tops gone. The beans were of a browse strain. Is there any hope they might still produce some beans for fall?
Same question for the sunflower plants. Any chance the one the tops were bit off making a head?