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Euonymus Hedge = Deer Chow
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Posted by jim_ny NY (My Page) on Mon, Jan 16, 06 at 13:29
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Our backyard gardens are fenced in, but the deer got in last winter and savaged our previously nice euonymus hedge. Once lush, now spindly.
Now that the fence is fixed, how to restore the hedge? I don't know whether to cut the whole thing down to the ground, cut it back halfway, top off the remaining shoots and cultivate a few selected suckers . . . . or what.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Jim (a new guy here) |
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RE: Euonymus Hedge = Deer Chow
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| Classic method is to cut it within a few inches of the ground. And then, after it sends up a bunch of shoots, cut those back. That way you get a dense hedge from the bottom up. Left to its own devices it will be bare at the bottom and bushed out at the top which is not what you want. |
RE: Euonymus Hedge = Deer Chow
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| Thanks, that's what I'll do! |
RE: Euonymus Hedge = Deer Chow
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Mine were stripped of half their bark before I caught it and enclosed them
in chicken wire. Rabbits, apparently. They have one trunk each, about an inch in diameter, no shoots or suckers
from ground level. The branches are chewed back to about 18", but it's the stripped bark that
worries me most.
Any advice? |
RE: Euonymus Hedge = Deer Chow
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| Cut back in spring to just about ground level - they'll come back. |
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