How do you keep deer out of a garden?
Question:Deer are eating my day lillies
Answers:
Here's how:
Get a few bars of Irish Spring soap. Break or cut the bars into several pieces. Place a piece in the toe of an old nylon pantyhose and knot it. Hang the pantyhose wherever it's convenient around the garden.
I assure you, whitetail deer cannot stand the smell of Irish Spring. It's worked wonders for us on our wooded property, where we measure our deer by the ton.
Very high fence, a least 6 feet, or rifle.
Get a dog.
There are deer sprays you can by that smell awful to the deer but it's expensive; you can find these products often in large pet stores and garden centers. You might need to put chicken wire around all your plants because the deer will feed on most everything.
A Fence. or there may be sprays which you can put on or around the flowers which deter deer. I think they are garlic based so they are non toxic.
Get some hair from a barber shop and put it all around the area.Refreshit every 2 weeks and that will spook them off...I have done it and it works great...Also it is free so how can you go wrong!
A fence maybe not plausible since it's your flowers. I've heard of the hair out of a hairbrush trick and also to play a radio so they can hear it. Anything that fool the deer into thinking humans are near by. Yes, I've even heard of urinating on the ground but perfume maybe a lot better..*smile*
We have used many products. The best is Liquid Fence, it comes in concentrate or ready to use. At last I can grow daylilies and get to see them flower. Be aware this stuff smells like rotten eggs at first, after an hour there's no smell to humans, but the deer and rabbits get it. Recommend you spray the perimeter until they get the idea and habitually stay away from your garden area.
Get that high fence that Stevetower suggested, only LAY IT ON THE GROUND. Deer do not like the feeling of stepping into the fence, it gets caught on their feet. We tried everything, from laying out hair we collected at the beauty parlor to using dried blood, dog urine and feces. . . nothing was consistently effective. . . until we laid out the fence. It really works!
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