Oh Deer!

Oh Deer!

We enjoy seeing deer out the window. I don’t even mind their tracks in the garden and the little piles of “marbles” in the yard. After all, where I live was all country and woods when I moved in. The deer had a home too. Now it is all houses and roads. The deer are isolated to small undeveloped wooded lots. They are almost homeless.

Now they have violated the sacred tomato plants. Never has that happened before. They ate the tops off of all but two plants. The tomatoes were blooming. In order to close the proverbial barn door after the horse gets out, the tomatoes are now wrapped with plastic fence. They can’t stay that way; but maybe it will stop the munching long enough for a recovery. There’s plenty of honeysuckle. The deer should eat that.

The sugar peas are looking shabby. The fall onions have gone to seed. Watermelon was planted in the space between sugar peas and onions. It is time to give them room to grow. Time to build a “watermelon fence”. The watermelon fence will require the plastic fence that is wrapping the tomatoes now.


David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/.