[St. Louis Conservative]

Shoot them with a bow?

[CurlyDave]

1. Outside Dog.

2. Wire fence cage around tree.

[SC Swamp Fox]

Electric fence. $25 at Lowes.

[samadams2000]

1)Still shoot them 2)Bob Cat urine spray 3)Kayene pepper mix on the ground

[Irisshlass]

Hang some aluminum pie pans up. It worked in my garden.

[50cal Smokepole]

I’ve had good luck with this:
http://www.deerscram.com/

[NVDave]

Get a slingshot. A slingshot and some small, rounded rocks applied directly to the deer’s rump area whilst it is eating will soon cause the deer to associate eating your tree with getting a sharp pain in the rump. It is important that the deer not see you cause the pain in the rump - it has to seem like “magic.”

[Domandred]

Wolves seem to be working here in Idaho to keep the deer population down...course that probably won’t work for you

[JerseyHighlander]

polypropylene deer control fence, 8-foot-tall

something like this:

http://www.deerxlandscape.com/cgi-bin/webc.cgi/st_main.html?p_catid=8

find a local supplier as the shipping costs are excessive.

[Kartographer]

Is there a zoo nearby? I have heard of excellent results using big cat manure to keep deer away. A lot of zoos sell it for a small donation.

[TheZMan]

"Well honestly officer, I saw a shadow moving out in the yard and feared for my life..."

My parents looked into options for their garden since they were having the same problem. Short of a really tall fence around the tree (google for the height) I'm not aware of a method to stop deers from getting into your plants.

[rabscuttle385]

Kill it anyways. You might just save some poor motorist’s life.

[1_Rain_Drop]

I had the same problem. My two year old peach tree and walnut tree kept on being snacked on. I was growing twigs it seemed. The garden center recommended “liquid fence”. I sprayed it on the mulch around the base of the trees as well as on the “twig” trunks. I have only sprayed them twice and it has worked well. Now my “twigs” have an abundance of new branches! It has been a month since the last spraying.

[Nooseman]

bar soap in a nylon stocking,hang it up head high. heard that works.fwiw.

[TruthWillWin]

Move or give up on the idea of having a peach tree.

Planted 5 bare root trees last year and the G#@D*% deer ruined all but one. I would wait for them to come at nght and throw rocks at them. The SOB's learned my range, waited until I went to bed, then came back and did their thing.

[MamaDearest]

I put windchimes and tin cans tied with strings on the fruit trees and deer have left them alone. It’s been very difficult for deer, elk, moose and other critters to survive the last couple of harsh winters, let alone coyotes and wolves that take down the fawns. You might want to fence in your trees. The areas of our yard where we have a one-sided fence backed by fruit trees has NEVER had deer enter and bother the trees.

[voteNRA]

Deer really don't like shiny or reflective surfaces so maybe you could try hanging foil strips or CDs by string from a low hanging branch.

You could also try leaving a strong smelling bar of soap in the area. Unnatural scents should work for a few weeks.

Whatever you try, you should definitely switch up methods every couple weeks.

[Clemenza]

Rats with antlers. Thankfully not too common in Long Island City and Astoria just yet. They were hell when I lived in Central Jersey, and did nothing but eat shrubs, cause car accidents, and provide carrion for turkey vultures.

[Man50D]

I don't know if this will work. The movie "The Rookie" is a true life story of a ex minor league ball player who's career was cut short due to an arm injury but finally made the major leagues on a second chance years later after being a high school chemistry teacher and baseball coach.

The team he coached played on a dirt field but they wanted to grow grass. They tried growing grass but the deer would come a long at night and eat the grass seed. Some towns people spread human hair around the perimeter of the field on the premise deer will keep moving when they sniff human hair. The grass finally grew in after a few weeks.

[kcvl]

Moth balls!

Deer eat everyone’s shrubs in our neighborhood but ours. We just throw moth balls in there every now and then.

Our neighbors didn’t believe me until I proved it to them. Don’t ask me why but it worked for us.