Saturday, April 28, 2007

Infuriation

After painstakingly constructing our expensive 7+ foot deer fence we expected and were having no predation on our broccoli, cauliflower and other greens. But last night the small doe and perhaps another deer managed to find an opening they could get through. In short order they devoured about 600$ worth of plants and the labor that it took to put them in and tend to them.

No doubt those environmentalists are chortling in glee at yet another example of nature exacting its tole on man. Stupid farmers trying to impose their will on mother nature, we don't need them we can just get our food from the all-organic grocery store.

It would be so easy to blame myself for this because I wasn't more careful in tending to the fence. It would be equally easy to sit up tonight and gut shoot every deer in the neighborhood; but of course I would never do such a barbaric thing. I will make another attempt to remedy the fence and hopefully will be able to at least keep the deer out of the grapes for the rest of the season. Unfortunately it is now too late to do anything about early greens and salads. Will re-till that field and plant it to artichokes or something else.

Take care and stay alert; there's a lot of things out there waiting to take a bite.

1 comment:

Rae Ann said...

Well, that totally sucks about the deer. Instead of shooting them maybe we could shoot some environmentalists. ;-) Of course, I'm joking, but you know that.