Earth's Living Forests

Just to say the deer are marauding. The day I went to town last week I returned to find they had eaten the hearts out of 7 fully grown lettuce and eaten the fruit and leaves of some 20 strawberry plants.

As if I didn't get the message on Sat 12th I went to the village to help with some computer issues, which I failed to resolve, only to find on my return that 12 perfectly good lettuce had been yomped again.

EDIT
Well twice more, today 19th being the latest.

I am not keen on fencing and will have to make my presence noted some other way.

The proper action is to just be here, but 24/7/52 is not going to happen.

So the alternatives are:

• Pee on trees to leave a 'mark'
• Hang a few shiny items from the trees, like old CDs to annoy they
• Place a few twigs in strategic places to make things a bit difficult in places
• Install some infra-red sensor to enable a sound and/or visual disturbance

Well some day, anyway.

Update: 11th June 2011
The deer ate through most of my leeks, some hundred or more, so this winter/spring I did do a rough fence. Still over the last few weeks most of my lettuce 20+ have been eaten along with the 90% of chard and spinach and some bean tops.

Will add to the fencing and consider electronic proximity alarm