Cyp deer damage and recovery

[sergeharvey]

What is there to do when a deer has decided to have fresh Cypripedium sprouts for lunch?

 

[eds]

What is there to do when a deer has decided to have fresh Cypripedium sprouts for lunch?

Get a rifle and eat venison in lots of different ways?! Venison sausages are a favourite of mine!

 

[SEMO-Cypr]

I have to put a wire cage around my Cyps in the deer haven that is my property.. not pretty but effective. I have yet to loose any to deer. Only from my stupidity and learning to grow them.

Side note, I also grow a lot of native plants out in my woods and I push sticks in and around the plant all over so the sticks are above the plant in all angles and it also works great just not 100% if you don’t use newly broken sticks.

 

[NYEric]

Chicken wire mesh and long stakes.

 

[Ray]

Spray the plants and immediate area with a deer repellent containing coagulated eggs.

 

[cnycharles]

Get a rifle and eat venison in lots of different ways?! Venison sausages are a favourite of mine!

Venison spiedies and small steaks cooked in cold frying pan with butter olive oil and garlic salt topped with over easy fried egg mmmmm

 

[abax]

I use a granular repellant that works quite well. The deer ate my daylily buds for
two years before I found the small miracle at Lowes. I'll look at the bag tomorrow and
post the name of the product. Sadly, it doesn't work on squirrels.

 

[Sky7Bear]

I'd like to know more about a repellant that really works, fir my lilies as well. I lost all my ground Cyps to them, but am now trying them semi hydroponically on the deck. I'll know how this worked in a year