Quote Originally Posted by molehill View Post
A Roe buck - if he stays I'm afraid he will probably eat everything - not much you can do about it except scare him off the garden. Down in Sussex (years ago) they used to decimate the Missus garden, come right up to the windows at night and take all her roses and flowers. And when it went into the veg garden there wasn't much left. Missus would be in tears after all her hard work.
Yes they do eat everything. We fence off the bits of the garden that we use for growing and that's worked okay, until the storm blew down some of the gates and fencing earlier this year, but there's not much to eat at the moment anyway. We were careful to protect the new fruit trees that we planted last year and they are thriving alongside our little friends. I don't think anyone has yet threatened to shoot him but the gardens are all on the, err, wild side up here. Not so many manicured flower beds!