I have about 10 acres of seedling apple trees. The deer pick and choose which trees they hit. I planted a dozen named varieties (MacIntosh, Spy Delicious, Idared, etc.) The darned deerwent 1/2 a mile out of their way to completely clean up every apple from those trees. It looks like if they taste good to us the deer don't mind them either. I would try to plant some later varieties so they're still a draw during hunting season (Mutsu, Spy).

Dan O.