Volume 12 , Issue 29

Parsley, Deer, Masticators & Time

We supposedly left Jack and his beanstalk guarding our potted vegetable garden in the Rockies of Southwest Colorado. But it seems the deer have taken a liking to the big pot of Italian curly leaf parsley that we had growing.

As you can see the deer have stripped the stems clean and still come back in the evening for more. What do they think! Parsley grows on trees? Laughing out loud! I wonder if the stripped stems will survive this deer pruning?

It seems the deer have developed a taste for our mountain parsley, especially the broad-leafed Italian parsley. We need to come up with a cover or solution to protect the parsley in the early evening and early morning.

Speaking of satisfying, we hear that the deer came back for considerably more of the parsley the second night. Our garden caretaker says, "They must have decided it was a lovely garnish. At least they left everything else alone."

Our garden caretaker said, "The deer (2 of them) showed up at 7:15 p.m. to see if we had any more parsley to offer. Ha! Fooled them. They already ate it all. So, they satisfied themselves by eating leaves from the bush next to the garage. I encouraged them to leave when they headed for the cascading petunia."

NOW! We hear tell that the sneaky little ground squirrels that look like a chipmunk but bigger in stature have been seen on the top round wire holding up our beanstalks. The caretaker tried scaring the hell out of the ground squirrel, hoping to discourage future acts of the same nature. Maybe this calls for the work of the Giant, as in "Jack & the Beanstalk."   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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