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Asked by:
Michelle Stuart
Posted at:
January 26, 2025
I have a 3/4 acre garden in Amagansett, New York (end of Long Island), USA for almost twenty years. Last year the deer decimated my garden. A landscape person who uses your services said to plant herbs in my garden and to get them from you. Perhaps, he said I could intersperse other plants among the herbs, like grasses. That herbs could be just as beautiful as other plantsUnfortunately, deer, like people, have different tastes. Also like people, if they are hungry they will all of a sudden eat what they spurned before. It is certainly true that in general deer like herbs a lot less than grasses and other mild-tasting locally abundant plants -because they have such strong flavours. This means that a plant ignored by deer in one region may not be ignored by those in another region. You will certainly have trouble again next summer because the deer have found out that your yard contains tasty plants and they will remember.
My question is this: Which would be the most deer tolerant or should I say the most obnoxious to deer? Which herbs would make a pretty garden? And which would be both and even good to eat?
The earth here is good and the weather Zone 7 for growing. I suppose I also should ask which ones could be planted this spring for a good garden this spring/summer season...and hopefully even next. For example lavender winters over well here and they haven't eaten that yet.