Deer Troubles

Are deer eating your garden or flowers around your house? If so, try this simple and possibly successful solution. Place some of those small stick-in-the-ground solar lights around the vegetation. There is no prescribed number; just put one every 10 feet or so to form a border. While I can’t say for sure that these work, evidence is strong that they do. My aunt and uncle in the Memphis suburbs lost most of their ornamental plants to whitetail depredation. This past year they followed the solar light regimen and stopped the deer activity. One of their neighbors did as well. I planted a pea patch just outside my bedroom this year. Fearing that deer would eat them, I put out four lights. I don’t know that they worked, for I had never planted peas there before. But I have deer in the yard and I got production in the small patch. The deer let them grow to maturity and harvest.