Hi.
I know someone has already said this, but get a giraffe.
I meant a dog.
Or two.
5.56mm
Look up Scarecrow Sprinklers. Available at Amazon.
Liquid fence concentrate, $100 a gallon, makes 12 gallons of spray. Some plants they will eat the buds or leaves off anyway.
I will be putting up some tall fencing in certain areas.
I have a deer tag when the season opens
Cross bow
Electric fence
Then buy as many cheap womens nylons as needed to surround your garden.
Cut the legs from the nylons, and stuff them with human hair. Tie off the open ends.
Use yard stakes to secure them to the outside of the garden, surrounding it.
Deer HATE the smell of human hair. I used this trick a number of years ago, before I was able to secure my garden from deer getting into it with a 7' fence.
Beagles.
.22 birdshot.
Mountain lion urine.
Irish Spring soap.
BB gun.
Two solutions.....
Get an electric fence. Hang a sheet of aluminum foil on the fence and smear it with peanut butter. The deer lick the peanut butter and get zinged. We had a friend defend an entire lot full of blueberries with just a single strand around the lot.
Otherwise, use a paint ball gun. They don’t like it, and the neighbors won’t hate you.
Urine. Onion powder. Human hair. Dogs. Motion detector lights (at night.) Liquid Fence deer and rabbit repellent. Repels-All animal repellent by Bonide. Anything that makes noise and motion when the wind blows.
Wolf urine. Sold in small bottles. A little goes a long way, I’ve read.
Hanging reflective items can help.
Old CDs because they move in the wind and reflect give you some chance.
A dog can help.
But there really is no way to keep them away other then fence, dog or death.
They eat things that people swear are deer proof. Ha!
First, pee around the perimeter-just make sure you walk backwards. Second, put twigs or bamboo stakes in quantity through out your plants. The deer will avoid poking their eyes.
just reconfigure the way you see the situation
they’re not tomato plants
they’re venison bait
I know I do!
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All the children of the world
Red and yellow, black and white
They are precious in his sight.
Jesus loves the little children of the world!
People have noooo idea. Kings will shut their mouths at him.
My neighbors used coyote urine that they mail ordered.
Another used garlic and cigarette ashes mixed into a paste and hung on strips of fabric near the deers’ favorite target in his yard — an arbor vitae shrub.
I’ve also read that deer don’t like Irish Spring soap, and that people put chunks of it in net bags tied to stakes near target plants, like around the garden.
I have used strips of very fragrant dryer sheets tied to several twigs of a shrub. Looks ridiculous, though, and you have to keep replacing all of these “fragrance” remedies after a rain.
Marigolds planted around the borders of garden plots help a lot — they don’t like the marigold smell; however, if they get hungry enough, they will eat anything. I’ve had them pull up entire crysanthemum and geranium plants, and also uproot wire garden fencing that was merely pressed into the ground (not stapled to posts sunk in concrete), apparently with their teeth.
Your extension service may be able to give you a list of plants they like the most and the least in your zone. I didn’t know when I first moved here, and ended up transferring quite a number of border plants to my relatives’ house, because they ate my hostas and liriopes to the ground. My English holly bush was a total goner, as well as my hydrangea. I’ve replaced some of them with low-growing juniper, Japanese holly and a berry-bearing shrub with spiked stems whose name escapes me right now.
By the way, they are stupid as heck. I have one of those airhorn alarms, and they don’t even bat an eye. I’m having to wear ear plugs, and they’re just standing and looking at me.
Be careful not to get too close, though, because they have hooves as well as teeth, and heads made for butting, and can hurt you badly.
The main danger is that they carry deer ticks, which can give you Lyme disease, a terrible chronic condition if not diagnosed and treated promptly. Deer ticks are very tiny and can crawl right up your shorts without you noticing, so cover up or use insect repellent while gardening if you are in a deer-infested area.