Not sure where you are but up here {Haida Gwaii} they grow like weeds. About six feet a year. They're an important stage in natural reforestation as they fix nitrogen into the soil. First grasses and mosses, then the berry bushes, then the Alders and finally the conifers grow up to replace them. I'm currently cutting down the Alders in my yard as I worry about them falling over now and the Cedars, Hemlocks and Spruce are big enough to screen my yard and allow my casual outdoor nudity to continue.. Clean Alder {no moss on the bark} is great for smoking Salmon. Great Adze handles too as the branches grow at a nice comfy angle to the main stem. Good carving wood too.We have red alder trees behind our house. The seedlings sprout up EVERYWHERE.
Not sure where you are but up here {Haida Gwaii} they grow like weeds. About six feet a year. They're an important stage in natural reforestation as they fix nitrogen into the soil. First grasses and mosses, then the berry bushes, then the Alders and finally the conifers grow up to replace them. I'm currently cutting down the Alders in my yard as I worry about them falling over now and the Cedars, Hemlocks and Spruce are big enough to screen my yard and allow my casual outdoor nudity to continue.. Clean Alder {no moss on the bark} is great for smoking Salmon. Great Adze handles too as the branches grow at a nice comfy angle to the main stem. Good carving wood too.
That's one lucky tree.I have about 1000 maples sprouting in my tiny city yard too right now … I’ve been admiring them for a week or so now. I am going to pick one in a good spot to tape off, avoid hitting it with the lawnmower, and nurture it
skeeters love the leavesBe a cold day in hell before I pickup leaves. If they weren't supposed to be on the ground, they wouldn't have fallen.
Be a cold day in hell before I pickup leaves. If they weren't supposed to be on the ground, they wouldn't have fallen.
Salmonberries, Huckleberries and Salal here too. Love a handful with dew still on 'em. I borrow a flail mower that eats Salal and Salmonberries up and mulches them all if they get out of hand. Most I leave because I'm a berry hound.I'm a ways south of you on Washington's coast. (Ocean Shores) Just behind my house is state wildlife land, with alders, salmonberries, lowland huckleberries...and salal. (that shit is the debil to eradicate)
I don't care for salmonberries or salal berries...and the tiny little lowland huckleberries just don't compare to the mountain huckleberries.Salmonberries, Huckleberries and Salal here too. Love a handful with dew still on 'em. I borrow a flail mower that eats Salal and Salmonberries up and mulches them all if they get out of hand. Most I leave because I'm a berry hound.
Sounds like a delicious buffet for the deer.
Yeah a garden fence needs to be 6 feet tall here and if you can cover the top too because of Blue Jays. A couple deer a year is great in the freezer or canned though I make sure to do it surreptitiously because I have some deer that hang out here that come to listen when I play guitar outside sometimes. They've taken to sleeping on or around my deck for some reason and I'm fine with that.The deer here are fucking vermin...and eat almost anything they can get to.
Just my $2 (the price went up, didn't anyone tell you?). I love stories like this.
Not to get off track, but has anyone had any luck with those motion activated deer chaser devices?
Huh. Haven't seen those but very imaginative. No, there are devices like this.The ones attached to a garden hose? They work pretty well...until the deer get used to them, then they just might trigger them to get a cool shower.
Huh. Haven't seen those but very imaginative. No, there are devices like this.
The one I have has a fairly bright light and you tune it to a radio station so it sounds like people - at I assume that's the point. So you probably want to set to an all talk station. And you can set it pretty loud. Mine is ancient so it uses 4 D cells and it can chew thru those pretty quickly if it gets triggered often or set the radio volume too high. But I'm willing to bet that anything produced in the last decade is probably a lot more efficient.
I noticed that Amazon's top picks are ultrasonic ones. So unless you see deer with hearing aids, that might be the way to go since they SHOULD find that much more irritating and are less likely to habituate to the noise.
Randy and Gloria O’Brien own one of the biggest independent logging companies on Haida Gwaii, a firm that has also long had a provincial contract to service the region’s highways.
Over the years, as Haida leaders and environmentalists waged battle against clear-cutting, the overall supply of timber has decreased and hurt their business, the O’Briens said. They had been forced three years ago, they said, to log cedars from half of a 320-acre property they had planned to pass on to their children and grandchildren.
As power began shifting toward the Haida, the O’Briens said that elected officials had grown indifferent to their complaints.
“They won’t return phone calls, and Victoria, we can’t even get in there to see anybody,” said Ms. O’Brien, 73, referring to the provincial capital. The couple said they feared for their company’s future after doing business on Haida Gwaii since the mid-1970s.
“When we first came here, we met a lot of Natives and they became our friends,” said Mr. O’Brien, 76. “We partied with them, went fishing, went hunting, everything.’’
“But all of a sudden, now they’re — ” he said, with a laugh. “They’re going to be our overlords.”
Deer you say?Yeah a garden fence needs to be 6 feet tall here and if you can cover the top too because of Blue Jays. A couple deer a year is great in the freezer or canned though I make sure to do it surreptitiously because I have some deer that hang out here that come to listen when I play guitar outside sometimes. They've taken to sleeping on or around my deck for some reason and I'm fine with that.
If you want to get rid of deer for a few years just tan some hides. They get the picture real quick.
So you live not that far from a beach and deer roam around outside your house? How did you get so lucky?Deer you say?
Easier solution: put smelly food in the box and place it a bit higher where only a cat would be able to jump and reach inside while the fox would just go around in circles in absolute miseryI'm gonna have to rethink how I feed the kitties if the fox becomes an issue.