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Protect Your Garden: Deer-Resistant Planting Tips For New Jersey Gardeners
Now that Mother's Day has come and gone now is the time to get outside and start planting.
You're pretty much in the clear here in New Jersey.
That's what I was always told. Gardeners would say once Mother's Day came around it was safe to start planting your flowers and vegetables.
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The odds of the temperature getting down to below freezing are pretty rare this time of year and night temperature should stay above 50 degrees.
Now that we have the green light to start planting, we have one big problem in many areas of New Jersey.
That problem...DEER!
You can plant your flowers and vegetables one day and wake up the next and they're all gone.
That's happened to me! Has it ever happened to you?
If you have a 6 to 8-foot fence that deer can't jump over you're in luck, but if you don't, you're going to have to come up with another solution to keep the deer away.
You can try different non-toxic sprays that are supposed to help repel animals, but they don't always work and you have to make sure you keep reapplying.
Country Living recently had an article about 38 deer-resistant plants.
But remember that there's no such thing as deer-proof plants, only deer-resistant plants. While they're typically less likely to feast on plants with highly aromatic, fuzzy, or prickly leaves, there are no guarantees about what your neighborhood Bambi will (or won't!) eat.
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Here are the 38 plants deer typically stay away from, according to Country Living.
38 Deer-Resistant Plants
Boxwood
Lavender
Japanese Forest Grass
Allium
Hellebore
Winter Aconite
Dusty Miller
Agastache
Bleeding Heart
Daffodil
Daphne
Dwarf Alberta Spruce
Sage
Peony
Rosemary
Iris
Pieris
Lamb's Ear
Abelia
Barberry
Caryopteris (Bluebeard)
Diervilla
Forsythia
Winterberry Holly
Potentilla
Butterfly Bush
Baptisia
Heuchera
Lamium
Ornamental Grasses
Catmint
Bee Balm
Foamflower
Torenia
Sweet Alyssum
Ageratum
Heliotrope
Angelonia
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