"Never rub another man's rhubarb!" -Jack Nicholson's Joker to Michael Keaton's Bruce Wayne. (My three rhubarb sets, put out in May, are thriving, but they are not to be harvested in the first year.)

Posted on Jul 20, 2021

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"Never rub another man's rhubarb!"
-Jack Nicholson's Joker to Michael Keaton's Bruce Wayne.

(My three rhubarb sets, put out in May, are thriving, but they are not to be harvested in the first year.)

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CW3 Harvey K.

Posted 3 y ago

I defeated the groundhog who invaded my garden, but now I find deer tracks and signs of browsing on my tomato plants. I thought animals avoided the strong smell and taste of tomato plants.

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CW3 Harvey K.

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MSgt Robert "Rock" Aldi - I've heard about that stuff. It's supposed to keep all kinds of herbivores away.

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CW3 Harvey K.

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A1C (Verify To See) - They browsed on the bush beans, no surprise there, but I thought the tomato plants were safe. They ate the first ripe tomato I was planning on for a BLT, as well.
Strange, they left all the sweet pepper plants alone.

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CW3 Harvey K.

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Sgt Jim Belanus - The "stinko stuff" was probably the coyote urine Rock mentioned. I put some nylon netting over the plants yesterday, and had no deer tracks this morning. I'm leaving a radio in the garden overnight. That worked to keep the groundhog out. Maybe it will work with deer.

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Sgt Jim Belanus

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CW3 Harvey K. - I think the stuff she was using was made of blood meal, that is what my old cousin used on his garden on the farm. Good luck, we've lost tomatoes that were 2 days from picking, sure ticks a guy off

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