Billinoregon
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We have a lot of deer and wild turkeys here on our five acres. Are they likely to leave the tobacco alone?
I am planting my tobacco this 2012 season (for the first time) on my parents Christmas tree farm. After my father passed away we stopped farming and now we are left with a beautiful pine forest - a haven for deer. We could never keep a vegetable garden because of the animals (deer in particular) would eat everything we planted, even flowers. Today I stopped by the property to mow the lawn and found that the deer ate all of the newly sprouting perennials among other plants. I searched the web and discovered that many people do have problems with deer eating tobacco. So now I am very concerned as planting time is in just a couple of weeks.
To make the story short...it seems that I have two options. Either I setup a fence or use something like Liquid Fence (a natural repellant that is made from and smells like rotten eggs). The fence would work but would look ugly on a beautiful piece of land. The Liquid Fence would also work but I don't know if the smell would leach into the tobacco leaf. Does anyone have any suggestions or am I just panicking? BTW I plan on planting about 200 plants.
Marco
In 2 years dear have not botherd my tobbaco and I have a lot of them. They wiped out my okra last year and people told me they would not eat it. Ther a pest and should be removed from populated areas. But wildlife off. act like there a threnten critter.My pest this year is the moles digging right down the rows takes the dirt from the roots. IM going to stab them with a hay fork.
Speaking on behalf of insects everywhere, I can happily say that the warm weather is making it really good for insects....the warm winter, is going to make it bad for inscects this year