Meet Mr Scarecrow.
I think Jeremy did a great job: he took a wire coat-hanger, an old sweatshirt to stuff the head, and a strip from an old sheet (kept for years to make ghost costumes that never happened). He drew the face and buttons with a fabric marker.
Our deer trouble has turned serious. Fourty-five almost fully-grown lettuce plants and twenty recent transplants wiped out. Twelve Swiss chard plants vanished. Green bean patch gone. Some parsley cropped. The last straw was when the deer acquired a taste for my tomato plants as well: it was time for serious action. And what do you traditionally use to keep animals out of your vegetable garden? A scarecrow, a deer scarecrow, a ghostly one that would sway in the night breezes and - hopefully - terrorize the horned vandals.
Unfortunately, Rebecca mistook Jeremy's scary Mr Scarecrow for a dollie, and put her to bed ...
... and was not entirely happy when we hung the "dollie" on a pole in the garden, starting her new life as a scary Mr Scarecrow ...
True, scarecrows are a traditional garden solution, but I'm starting to believe that as far as deer trouble is concerned when Megan pointed out another traditional solution, she was right on!
