I’m surprised small trailers are not more popular. I guess everyone in the US has a pickup or SUV.
Some of those SUVs, like a Honda CRV, are pretty small. A trailer would bring a lot of utility. If you lived far from big box stores, a trailer load of stuff from Costco and/or Home Depot would be a great efficiency. Even just the option of carrying a full sheet of plywood would be handy.
First decent harvest of the wild edibles on the property stone plumbs or maribella I think is the proper name and a bucket of black berries
Ugh, that was sad, you don’t want the deer or the neighbor’s sheep to eat vegetables and flowers, my wife gets very angry when they take her flowers, but I think it’s worse when they take the vegetables.
I will let you know how elderberry fares. But…
chatgpt Some plants that are known to repel deer include:
It’s important to note that while these plants are known to be deer-resistant, no plant is entirely deer-proof. The effectiveness of repellent plants can vary depending on the specific deer population and environmental conditions.
Welcome to my world Marcus. Only viable place for my garden is bordering the swamp. This year is the first in many that we had rabbits. I guess the coyote population is down. I have no kale left out of 36 plants, no beans. Nothing seems to bother peppers or tomatoes other than slugs and bugs, but the squash and pumpkin will be a fight because the deer just come and smash them with hoofs. Eat a little out of the middle and move on. I think that’s just mean. They also eat the grapes. So sad that the rabbits beat them to all the leaf crops. That’s why I’m transitioning to a controlled environment.
The best anti-deer and anti-rabbit ward-off we’ve evolved is dogs. Not just one. Two-Three overlapping in ages and interests roving dogs.
Fencing to keep your dogs in is much cheaper that the fencing to keep deer and rabbits out.
Still not cheap either.
But last night I ate fresh steamed garden green beans to go with our Tilapia fillets, our baked potatoes wedges, green zucchini and yellow squash slices.
S.U.
Whitetails love our peas. Partially trimming down stalks and all. Stomping around in the potato field as they go.
Unfortunately our dogs like their sleep as much as I do. Indoors on their back snoring 10 hours every night. By the time they wake up, whitetails are long gone.
You guys have whitetail deer over there??
I think what J-O means is roe deer, they also have white tails but they are a bit smaller, about half weightwise.
I’m not competent enough to tell the difference, but roe deer sounds right, because that’s what we call them here. I didn’t know we had a smaller type as well. What do we call them in Swedish?
As you know I don’t hunt - only with the car. I’ve knocked over half a dussin roe deer over the years. Close call on about the same amount of moose.
I meant that we have roe deer, and roe deer is half the size of a whitetail (which we don’t have unfortunately)
Last evening coming home driving down the Entiat River valley, I almost hit two Mule Deer, one 4 point western antler count in velvet and one doe both 200 lbs. plus. Both were slam on the brakes going only 35 mph. Speed. I drive slow in the evenings.
Fortunately we live a couple hundred miles south of reindeer areas. They can be a real traffic hazard. They often block the road in dussins and aren’t usually afraid of traffic at all.
Fun fact is the direct translation to the swedish word for road shoulder is road deer 
Wow, half a dozen? Now I understand why Saab made his a-style so strong.
Joep, you remember the size and sturdiness of the bumpers on both Volvos and Saabs during the 70’s snd 80’s? I’m surpriced the French didn’t use them more back then - with their parking situation
Oh, and divide the number of years you’ve been driving with half a dussin. You will discover hitting a deer is rare
. So true.
About Frace. I hid the last small wild boar of a six piece family with the camper in the middle of the night on the highway. The more I think about it, the more I think it was only touched . Every woke up. Imagine mama boar is hit, you can wreck your car and wheels will be lifted. You need more then a pits stop.
Never hit anything beside some rabbits. lucky me.
We discussed hitting wildlife at work today.
With all the rain we’ve had for the past month, some roads have been flooded lately. A co-worker mentioned a friend of his hit a 15 pound pike
It was probably a baby Storsjöodjuret, but he was too afraid that you wouldn’t believe him. 
15 pound pike could eat your leg. I once saw a skeleton washed up on the shore. A large pike had tried to swallow one about half his size and I guess it got caught in his throat. So they both died still hooked together. I wish I would have had a camera.
