Here in Halifax, NS, Canada, I have a small plot in a semi-suburban community garden.
So far, the deer DON'T eat my...
• Lemon Verbena (I use it for green tea.)
• Lemongrass (ditto)
• Kale (I didn't plant it, but it nevertheless appeared, I guess from a stray seed.)
• Garlic
• Chives
• Rhubarb
• Parsley
• Wood Sorrel (a local edible weed that grows naturally and is left alone and used as cover-crop)
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• Mint and Lemonbalm (both grow outside of my plot, except for a stray mint)
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The deer DO eat my...
• Beans (they love them, and so do the slugs, so beans are out unless I can protect them)
• Squash (the new-growth parts)
• Cantaloupe (possibly, but I can't tell if it's squash or melon yet)
• Beets (a bit of the leaves anyway, although one plant was totally uprooted and disappeared)
• Tomatoes (including the foliage and probably more the newer/tender parts)
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• I DO eat...
• Deer (but the city might have me on a BBQ alongside it if I took one out to 'retrieve' some of my pilfered produce).
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* Our community garden appears subject to light human thievery, so sometimes it's unclear whether it's that or the deer.
** If recalled correctly, Canadian Elderberry IS edible, including uncooked, just that the seeds are what have the arsenic(?) in them. Maybe the case also for choke cherries. But always check and re-check on your own volition to be sure. I sprouted Canadia Elderberry this summer in the garden area outside of my plot, but the seedlings seem to have disappeared. Maybe it was the deer.
