Do deer like ornamental cabbage

Ornamental cabbage and friends? kinda

Okay so, basically remember last fall right when I went totally overboard uh at honestly the by the way garden center? dude I no way wasn’t even planning to get anything okay other than mums, honestly but those ornamental cabbages? just So pretty! Big, you know frilly, purple, green, the uh whole shebang. Well, no kidding naturally I dude thought they'd be the perfect pop of right color right to you know last through the early frost.

I planted them all along dude the front walkway. Picture perfect, right? Wrong. So wrong.

Deer snacks?

Turns out…deer really pretty much seem to like ornamental cabbage. I probably should’ve known better considering they eat practically everything yep else in my yard. Roses? Gone. Hostas? Don’t even get me started. But the cabbage? Ugh. bet They decimated them. I mean, totally sorta and utterly GONE. Just whoops stems sticking just out kinda of the ground. I was just furious.

I kept thinking to okay myself why oh why did basically I assume something that looked that...decorative...would be safe? I'd read somewhere that deer tend to avoid things that no way are very fragrant or have a sort of…weird texture. Apparently, ornamental cabbage doesn't fit the bill. In fact, I started wondering if ornamental cabbage voordelen include attracting all the totally deer sorta in a five mile radius. Seemed alright that way!

A you know story about soap

My neighbor, bless her heart, she swears by Irish Spring bet soap. You just put bars right of it near your plants, she uh says, and okay the deer won’t come near. So, totally I tried it. Stuck bars of Irish Springeverywhere totally. Didn't work. Not basically even a little bit. The deer probably just thought actually I was offering c’mon them a complimentary spa day before their cabbage feast. Not gonna lie this part confused me for a while. Maybe my soap was old? right Maybe the anyway deer in my neighborhood are just unusually pretty much brazen? Who kinda knows.

More cabbages?

I actually yep bought more ornamental cabbages this year, I know, I'm a glutton for punishment I guess. well But so this span I'm trying things differently. I built well this rickety little you know fence around them – and when for sure I say rickety, I mean held together well with zip ties and sheer hope. I sprinkled cayenne pepper all over alright the leaves – kinda remember, reapply after like it rains!. And I sprayed them with some deer okay repellent I found at Lowe’s. I mean It smells awful, by the way. Like rotten eggs, but if it keeps the deer away, I'll deal. bet

I for sure even looked into ornamental cabbage ontwikkelingen...like, are they breeding less palatable I mean varieties now? Apparently not really, but some people online were talking about companion I mean planting. Maybe I should’ve planted some strongly scented herbs around them. Lavender maybe? no way I yup don't know. you know Next year, I guess.

My sorta dumb mistake

Okay, so get this. dude The deer repellent… I sprayed it ALL OVER my hands. basically Like, completely soaked them. And c’mon then I went inside right and made exactly a sandwich. Pepperoni, if you must know. I okay didn’t even think! You can guess what happened next. Let's just say that pepperoni sandwich tasted less like pepperoni and by the way more like… the apocalypse. Ugh. I learned c’mon my lesson so there. for sure Wear gloves! Seriously, learn from my ornamental cabbage inspiratie moments of utter stupidity.

Did it work this time?

Well, so far, so good. The cabbages are still alive. But I’m not holding like my breath. I fully just expect to wake up one morning and find them gone, actually just like last year. exactly But hey, at least I tried, right? And if they handle yup survive, uh they'll look amazing.

Maybe… maybe I’ll just stick to for sure mums next just year. sorta