well, we have Century plants at my house- I'm tempted to break up the clusters and create a perimiter around the plants to guard against the deer
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well, we have Century plants at my house- I'm tempted to break up the clusters and create a perimiter around the plants to guard against the deer
I found these tips in an article,
A deer's first priority when food-shopping is making sure he doesn't become dinner himself. So picking up the scent of a possible predator may be enough to scare him away.
Examples are the old farmer tricks of hanging sweaty shirts around the garden or hanging out muslin bags filled with human hair. Some gardeners have had pretty good anti-deer success by fertilizing with Milorganite, a granular product that's made from treated Milwaukee sewage sludge. Apparently there's still enough human scent in it to make deer wary.
Another scent repellent favored by Netherlands Flower Bulb Information Center Director Sally Ferguson is "Swedish Skewers," made by soaking cubes of floral foam in a "soup" of bloodmeal, ammonia and water. To make, mix 2.5 pounds of bloodmeal in a bucket of water and add 1 cup of ammonia. Impale foam cubes on bamboo stakes or skewers, soak them in the bloodmeal/ammonia mix and then stick them around plants you're trying to protect. Ferguson says you may need to re-dip them weekly.
Some gardeners have saved plantings by using motion-activated gadgets that automatically spray a burst of water when something enters the watch zone. Others have used the same startling-action theory by employing motion-activated lights, radios, pie plates strung on wire and even mini-cannons set to go off at intervals (which might diminish your popularity with the neighbors)
13. RE: How to Stop Deer From Eating Your Garden (With 22 Plant Ideas!)
One of the deer kept eating out of the bird feeder and when I took it in she got angry, she snorted and grunted and even started to kick her hoofs into the ground, and then she ate all of my tiger lily buds which are suppose to be deer resistant
12. RE: How to Stop Deer From Eating Your Garden (With 22 Plant Ideas!)
would this work for all other animals too? like rabbits and cattle?
11. RE: How to Stop Deer From Eating Your Garden (With 22 Plant Ideas!)
What plants do deer not eat and is there a spray to keep them away?
10. RE: How to Stop Deer From Eating Your Garden (With 22 Plant Ideas!)
i use human hair. put hair in panty hose just a small handful,short piece of wire in top then hang in trees or just stake in ground all around area. this has worked for me. we have a large garden every year. try it. Gene
9. RE: How to Stop Deer From Eating Your Garden (With 22 Plant Ideas!)
Shoot them. Works like a charm.
8. RE: How to Stop Deer From Eating Your Garden (With 22 Plant Ideas!)
I have as high as 17 deer in my yard and as few as none. Average about 4 at a time. I have been using liquid fence for about 6 years now and use it according to the directions. the deer have learned even though my wife feeds them old bird seeds. We haven't lost a plant since we started using liquid fence.
well, I know the lights don't work- we have motion activated lights, they sleep in my backyard, but I'm partial to #9, that is nice, would have to be a bow though.... Suburbia does not like firearms being discharged....
does it grow dollars on it? lol!Quote:
Originally Posted by bob19991
And as for the hanging human hair, I don't think the Association/Yard police would like it- if you have seen "Over The Hedge" and remember the woman who said she is head of the association, thats what it is like
lol my mom lives in an assocation i can relate
Association AND CDD, 2 groups to waste our money, just build a "fitness center" with pool and gym- and the gym is undersized, and the pool has 2 swim teams, and the old pool has its swim team, so you can never get in the pool
that IS annoying! my mom can kill anyplant but rasberries. our raspberries were always wildly popular with bees and wasps, making them hard to pick, but what we managed to get was always enogh for 20qts of raspberry jelly and jam
You don't have to hang it, you can also put it around your plants hidden from the eye.Quote:
Originally Posted by bob19991
Well, in Boston, which was a bigger plot of land than where I am now, we had rose bushes, rubarb, tomatos, and lots of other plants, and the rubarb we had enough that we could burn it to heat the house all winter and still have some left over, and the only person who would eat it was my grandfather,