{"id":24317,"date":"2026-04-27T13:33:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=24317"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T11:37:37","slug":"been-got-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/been-got-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Been got, again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I spent the day removing the barriers from around my fruit trees that have prevented the deer from attacking them for a couple of years or so, not because the trees no longer need the protection but because the barriers had allowed the grass and weeds within them to grow massively in height and thickness. This was bad news because the weeds and grass starve the trees of water and were now so bad that they needed to be removed.<\/p>\n

After strimming away the weeds and grass I laid what turned out to be cheap, poor quality Temu mulch rings around the bases of the trunks of the trees in order to prevent the unwanted growth from coming back again and then replaced the barriers, but for the time being at least, without their supporting thin metal rods. The only exception was the new apple tree but I still have enough barrier material in my garden ‘abris’ from which I also intended to make it a new barrier.<\/p>\n

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I also intended to make a cut-down barrier for the new little Japanese Flowering Cherry that I’d planted nearly two weeks ago in my front garden, but as soon as I saw it this morning my heart sank. It was apparent that just as before, when the deer had attacked a new apple tree one day before I’d planned to put a barrier around it, the same had happened yet again with the Flowering Cherry.<\/p>\n

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I’m assuming that despite the abundance of greenery all around, a deer had taken a fancy to my new, weedy, out of shape Flowering Cherry. And it had done a thorough job, from top to bottom of the bush taking not only almost all of its foliage but also chunks of its stems.<\/p>\n

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The bush was something of a disappointment when it was delivered but I had no intentions of replacing it. Now I’m not so sure and may have to bite the bullet and shell out yet again for a replacement. If I do, I think that next time I’ll go for a tree format rather than a bush, which is what I originally intended, but for the time being I’ll leave what’s left in place and see how it does as I’ve got enough on my plate already to be dealing with in the garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I spent the day removing the barriers from around my fruit trees that have prevented the deer from attacking them for a couple of years or so, not because the trees no longer need the protection but because the barriers had allowed the grass and weeds within them to grow massively in height and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24317"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24326,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24317\/revisions\/24326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}