Deer eating pumpkins
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Comments (4)Hot Sauce or Capsaicin (pepper) is a taste repellent used in products like Hot Pepper Wax. They appear to work well with Squirrels and Rabbits and may work in some instances with Deer. Putrescent (Rotten) Eggs is used as a scent and taste based repellent as an ingredient in many spray-on repellents. Many people would use a two pronged approach to keeping deer away from your pumpkins and other plants. A spray on taste/odor repellent would be one strategy. Another very effective strategy is to use the Deer's keen sense of smell and strong survival instinct to your advantage. Shake-Away Large Animal Repellent takes advantage of both of those Deer defense mechanisms. It is the only product that contains genuine Coyote Urine in granule form. Simply sprinkle the product directly on the ground around the area you want to protect. It may be the easiest and safest deer repellent to use and comes with a money back guarantee. Here is a link that might be useful: Deer Repellent Granules...See MoreBirds eating my pumpkin seeds
Comments (3)I had the same problem with green bean seeds. I strung up some string and hung those disposable pie plates from the string. Just put a hole in the rim of the pie dish and thread a string thru. Then tie to your upper line. Make sure they are off the ground about 6 inches. The pie tins spin and turn with very little breeze and as soon as your plant have the secondary leaves they should be ok. If in doubt - leave the pie tins up. Save them from year to year also or start seeds indoors and put out with secondary leaves. They just want the seed I think. Any questions, feel free to ask. The pie tins always worked for us and I hope they do for you also....See MoreCan I eat a green pumpkin?
Comments (9)I have about 30 volunteer plants of what I thought was squash that washed down the hill from our chicken run. Tons of male flowers, lots of female flowers. I have fertilized them and taken care of them just as if I had planted them. Because they were very dense, I have cut back some of the foliage to let in the sunlight. Yesterday, I found several nice fist-sized squash, so I picked them and brought them into the house. I googled pics of small, round squash but could find nothing that looked like the ones I had picked. I was trying to find out when they should be picked - what they looked like, etc. Suddenly, it dawned on me that these were probably not squash (we feed our chickens leftovers and unsellable veggies & fruits from a local produce stand where I work on occasion), as I couldn't remember any time that we had fed the girls any small, round squash. However, we had fed them several PUMPKINS last fall! I quickly looked up pics of immature pumpkin and THERE THEY WERE! I felt badly that I had picked 2 of them so early, so looked it up to see if you could eat unripe pumpkin. YES! That young, you can prepare them like regular squash, which I decided to do so as not to waste them. THEY WERE ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS!!! I sliced them about 1/4" and sautéed them in coconut oil with just a bit of Himalayan pink salt and some freshly ground black pepper. That's all I did. I just couldn't believe they were so delicious!!! So for dinner, guess what I'm having . . . So all those plants up on the hill, I'm using for the huge yellow flowers and the small unripe pumpkin for a side dish. I had transplanted 4 of the seedlings earlier to a nice plot in my organic garden - so those I will let grow to maturity. I really don't need 30 plantings of ripe pumpkin! What a tasty surprise! You might want to try it . . . just cook them like you would in your favorite squash recipe....See Moresomething is eating our porch pumpkins!!
Comments (5)Squirrels get to all the pumpkins around here sooner or later. I have little pumpkins sitting on my fence posts. I sprayed them with scented floor cleaner to discourage the squirrels. I hope they last until Halloween. In the end I let the squirrels have them....See Morezzackey
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