Will deer eat Jerusalem artichokes?

rosie383

I am trying to organise my allotment, and need to make a 'deer proof' area fenced off to grow some of my plants.
On last year's experience, I will be fencing off my courgettes, beans, broccoli, peas for now. I have just been given a bag of jerusalam artichoke tubers which I have never grown before. Do these need to be protected?
I know the only things which weren't eaten last year were the tomatoes and potatoes. Thankfully, the things which take up a lot of space. So my fenced off area doesn't have to be huge.

Lotus-eater

Possibly, but they won't eat the tubers So not the end of the world, if you see them eat a bit then you can always fence them off.
The green bits on toms and spuds are poisonous, that's why they won't eat those. The JA being a relative to the sunflower, they could eat them, but I don't know if they will.

rosie383

Just found on an American site, a gardener saying that the deer had eaten all the foliage off his. I was thinking 'grrrr' and then noticed that all the replies he got said that theirs seemed to be left alone completely by the deer. As they were free to me anyway, and people say they make a good barrier, I will put them in a line along the bank between my plot and next door's. It is a terrace type affair, built on a hill with us at the bottom.