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  • no courgettes this year

    or pumpkins as the flaming deer has been and eaten them. Munch munch teeth marks left in the stems and vegetables left half chewed.


    Rang the 2 local garden centres and they are sold out of plants for replacement.

  • #2
    deer?! You must be really rural!

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    • #3
      Shame Janeyo, I've got about ten volunteer Jack o Lanterns which I could really do without, but haven't the heart to uproot. I'd send you a couple, but as they are about two feet long already I don't think they'd survive the transfer.
      Do you garden privately or on a lottie? Maybe one of the local lottie owners could help you out with something?
      When the Devil gives you Cowpats - make Satanic Compost!

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      • #4
        Mmmm, Bambi with a taste for squash...that's not good Jan. I wish I lived nearer to you. I could let you have a couple of plants. Are there no grapes near that can help you out?

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        • #5
          We are on the edge of a small village. The deer have been fenced out of my garden (we ate one of them last year). I grow on a pathc of wasteland next to my house, which obviously has the deer in there too! It's woodland at the bottom so they hide).

          I do have a lottie, but I swear the fairies come and plant stuff in the middle of the night on everyone else's plot as it doesn't matter when or what time I go it's deserted!

          I have looked online and all sold out too.

          maybe if I rig up some netting they will recoer enough to give me one or 2 at the end of the season (although the deer are quite determined!)

          off to look for a photo of the ones that used to come in the garden

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          • #6
            Here ya go
            Attached Files

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            • #7
              That's cool, I bet they taste great!

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              • #8
                The remedy would seem to be Muntjac pie.

                Colin
                Potty by name Potty by nature.

                By appointment of VeggieChicken Member of the Nutters club.


                We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to public office.

                Aesop 620BC-560BC

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                • #9
                  Looks like there's a guy selling courgette and pumpkin plants on eBay atm, 2-3" high. Not used them, 99.7 feedback score...

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                  • #10
                    Hadn't entered his my lil ole head to try ebay!
                    Problem solved.
                    And these ones will go in the garden where the broadies have vacated... no deer there

                    Thanks

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                    • #11
                      Glad to hear you've got some replacements.
                      Granny on the Game in Sheffield

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                      • #12
                        Dammit, venison instead?

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                        • #13
                          It isn't too late to sow courgettes from seed .... I usually start a couple off about now - they will then be producing nice fresh courgettes through late Aug/Sept, when my first courgette plants are getting a bit tired ......they will keep going the frosts if you are lucky

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