Now that the snow is melting, I can walk to the backyard to access the winter damage done by the deer and snowmobilers. :-p
My poor apple trees. My poor grape vine!! I could skin those varmints alive, I could.
My grapevine didn’t get it as bad as the apple trees. The busted post is from the Husband varmint. 
He accidentally backed into the garden fencing when working on the brakes, lol.
But my apples trees! 
! Ever year I go out to access the damage, and every year it’s the same– the trees are half eaten by those STUPID DEER!!!!!!!!! I hate them, I do.
By the way, that goofy string on the limb is my hokey version of deer repellent. Well, it WAS deer repellent. Well, actually, I guess it wasn’t. It didn’t repel anything!!!! GAH!!! It was a bar of soap hanging from the string. The soap (so I heard) repels deer. MY deer are SO nasty that they even eat soap!!!
*cries*
I have to go high tech, I think. I can’t sit back and watch my beautiful trees chewed up and devoured by critters that deserve only to be made into stew. I hear coyotes repel deer! mauhahahhahaha!!!! But… coyotes repel ME, too. So…. next best thing is to get….
COYOTE WHIZ!!! Yes! Well, technically it’s called “Coyote Urea.” *adjusts glasses* I really don’t care WHAT the durn stuff is, as long as it makes those deer high-tail it outta my yard. Buy.com has some of this stuff on sale for under $15. It’s called Shake Away Coyote Urea, and one application is supposed to last up to 90 days. That’s better than anything else I’ve have ever seen.
So, I hope my problems will be solved… now I need to figure out how to repel the blasted snowmobilers that tear up my yard…
17. March 2010 at 6:36 pm
Sorry to hear that the deer are destroying your apple trees. I guess we are really lucky that our deer find something else to eat than our trees. I don’t have an apple tree but I have some peach trees. Guess they don’t like those. Hope the Shake away works for you.