Discovery

The last two mornings began with a crust of snow on everything. Perfect weather for making soup and clearing out old file folders. I started with two thick folders titled "Garden" and "Garden Info" from my early days in Colorado when I took evening classes, used Colorado State University Extension resources to learn about mile high gardening and clipped articles that caught my fancy.

I got side tracked by an article from the July 1991 issue of "Country Living", titled, "My Fight with Bambi." The writer's amusing attempts and failures to keep deer from eating his garden reminded me of the fights I had and lost with deer. He was successful using a product called Hinder.
Googling that, I found a site that rates the effectiveness of deer repellents. I solved my deer problem by planting a lot and hoping they left me something.

It turns out that the writer,Walter Chandoha is from New Jersey, so I looked him up on Google and found excerpts from a book he did for the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, called "100 Garden Tips and Timesavers".

One site leads to another and I found tons of information. The most disappointing for me is that New Jersey deer eat the same plants that Colorado deer do. So I won't get to have daylillies here either.