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Do you eat the Purple Dove beans or collect them? What is a good Dove bean recipe?

planted four small rows of beans yesterday. weather forecast for the next week looks ok so i'm taking a chance. mostly Purple Dove...

yes, deer like comfrey and they really really like hostas (which are good eating for people too :) ). the only gardens deer leave alone...

We have an abundance of deer but they seem to leave the gardens alone. It could be because the beds are spaced about 30" from the fence...

that's all it takes...

We have so many deer walking through the neighborhoods here!

My folks saw a couple of deer sauntering through the neighbourhood yesterday morning. We have never had deer here, ever. Bizarre. I...

Baby rabbits managed to get through my fence last year and chewed off the hyacinth beans as they were just starting to flower. Only...

Ask and ye shall receive; this morning I woke up to an unusually large fox peeing all over stuff in my garden. 👍

Glad I didn't get in a hurry and plant any beans yet as our predicted last frost date was a week ago and yet it's currently 35°. Quite...

Your fence looks great, @Blue-Jay. I’ve had rabbit problems in the past but interestingly, they’ve shown no interest in beans. Perhaps...

It's a good system you have there @Blue-Jay. I may need to do something like this if rabbits do indeed turn out to be a problem; I've...

Yes I have noticed that once my beans become about 30 days old the rabbits here don't show any interest in the beans anymore. Perhaps...

Rabbit's Yikes is right ! I buy this vinyl lattice at Manards. Don't know if Manards is in Canada. Comes in 2 feet wide by 8 feet long...

I saw three rabbits today while out doing errands in my neighbourhood. Yikes. Hopefully the weasels, foxes and coyotes will balance...