Last year we planted a flat of Strawberries (4 dozen) in front of the boulders in front of our house. Some of them disappeared before fall and I strongly suspected the local Whitetail Deer population. This past week I've been watching my nice lush plants with berries with just a hint of color starting to appear in them.
This morning, while going out for our walk, I discovered that I no longer have berries with any color, and most of the leaves on most of the plants were gone as well. Out of the 4 dozen plants we planted last spring, we transplanted just 17 survivors to the bottom of the fenced-in, back garden and only 3 of them escaped undamaged. The rest are just gone, even though I had let the sporadic volunteer wheat from the straw mulch I put down grow up around them, standing.
The incriminating hoof prints in the road in front of the garden, pointed directly at the strawberries are all the proof I need. Yes, deer are vermin, tasty vermin, but still vermin; and I'll be fighting the ever-losing battle to eliminate them again this fall!
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