Vegetable garden. I built a fence around my vegetable garden because we have so many deer here and we don't have a dog. Last year all beans and cabbage plants were eaten by deer. I used a mixture of chestnut poles and metal posts to hold the fence up. The fence is a 1.5 (5foot) meter high sheep fence. Deer can probably jump over this if they really want to but i hope it will discourage them. Someone told me you can also put down the compost from your dry toilet and this will repel dear because they don't like the smell of humans (haven't tried this yet) I am going to use the Ruth Stout method of gardening adding hay mulch to my beds every year. To kickstart things off i had a friend of mine rotovate the soil with his tractor, then i put down a thick layer of farm yard manure and lots of hay on top.
I weeded all my malus sieversii trees and i lost quite a few to what i believe was a combination of deer, rabbit and rodent attacks. I think i lost between one fourth and one third of the 426 plants i grew from seed. I discovered some visually very amazing and different ones in two of the six seed batches. I singled out several unique ones that i planted in my polytunnel to grow them properly. I didn't have the time to protect the 426 as i would have liked to. All trees of the 4 other batches have basically green leaves. Here is one example. This is a very nice green leaved one. And another green leaved one. Already these two are different in leaf colour and shape. But i selected them from the batches where all had green leaves in order to be sure to have genetic diversity. I kept 18 seedlings in the polytunnel that contain some of every batch. The following ones are very special and unique and display many variations of red and green and even other colours. One seedling with nice
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