Annual Ryegrass - Page 5

 


Ah yes, quite lovely.  It's not so weedy here for some reason (perhaps too
dry, but who knows).  I had a stand of it in my last place and it always
stayed as a small patch.

 


Thistles will also attract some nice gold finches, if you are in the
right place of N. America.

Chris

 


Thistles will also attract some nice gold finches, if you are in the
right place of N. America.
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I'm on the other side of the world and in another hemisphere from N.
America.  But we do get some lots of birds here - 60 different species in a
6 month period (or so I'm told by the resident former member of Gould League
of Birdlovers).

 


Deer will eat grass but it would not be a favorite food and in the
summer, the whole world is one big salad bar to them.  I, too, doubt
that critters are your problem.

 

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:12:32 -0700 (PDT), Frank


If not grass what do you think is the main diet of deer during summer,
and rye grass is one of their favorites... rabbits love it too, so do
woodchucks, and of course Canada geese.  Dairy farmers plant rye grass
as a forage crop.  Foraging critters will eat most anything green  but
rye grass is a favorite.  In early August in South Carolina it
wouldn't have gotten cold enough to kill off annual rye.  And I know
from living most of my life on Long Island that rye grass handles
drought very well.  Unless yoose can prove with eyeball documentation
that the rye grass disappeared otherwise I'm sticking to critters. The
deer near the cabin likely wouldn't have eaten the grass while someone
was living there but be certain they were just waiting for an
opportunity... and then yoose left... that grass patch probably lasted
maybe three days.