How I keep deer from eating my plants | The Impatient Gardener
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2020
- The question I'm asked most often is: How do you keep deer from eating your plants?
In this video I'm showing what methods work for me, what I use and what I think about the new and expensive backpack sprayer I bought this year.
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Homemade deer repellent
4 eggs
1 tablespoon of cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon black pepper
A couple drops of dishwashing detergent (to help it stick to leaves)
Whole garlic cloves, crushed or smashed (I probably throw 6 in but just put in whatever you have)
Put all the ingredients in a rinsed out gallon milk jug and fill the rest with water. Shake thoroughly. Then set it out in the sun for a few days. You want it to get good and nasty. After it has “fermented” a bit, dilute it about 4:1 and sprinkle it all over everything.
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"Let's be honest, you guys, I'm not doing that math, I just sorta eyeball it." ... which is EXACTLY why I love your videos.
My daughter had a deer problem in her yard until a neighbor told her about using a radio. She would set the radio in the area the deer were eating. Turned it on all night talk radio, and the deer wouldn’t come near. Cheap and effective.
FM talk radio 'would drive me away- LOL!
Talk radio is all well and good but what if you have conservative deer?
😂😂😂 Nothing keeps mine away. They don’t even move even if I run after them😂
WE kept a radio on and it kept the coons out of the corn, but radio all summer long (young cabbages, hostas, mature cabbages) I couldn't deal with that!
@@theloniousm4337 try PBS
You look like a botanical ghost buster in this vid
That's my Halloween costume!
She’s still pretty woman in the whole yard....😉🥰
I love the “excuse, me, could you leave please” scene. I have done that too - doesn’t help but feels better (before I throw something near to them, to chase them away).
I was shaving while listening to the video. Was not even 1 minute in and I thought I had heard the solution. Was wondering what the last 14 minutes were going to be about.
When I saw that scene, I was thinking a paintball gun would be awesome right about now.
I don't even have deer anymore but that clip with you chasing the deer off was so funny 🤣
It was so funny! 😂
Lol, so polite, but ya, move along!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I have counrty property in zone 9. Deer breed on my property, what a challenge!
I tried everything from Deer Stopper to hanging bars of Ivory Soap!
I desperately wanted some roses which they kept eating up.
I caged florabunda roses under an eight foot trellis. When they were tall enough I took the cages off and now the deer eat everything up to 6 feet or so,
and my roses are like tall beautiful rose trees.
Deer love flowers and will try everything when you first plant, so cage until they are rooted enough that the deer can't pluck them out of the ground.
On my property I have no fences but you can keep them out with solid fences, if they cannot see through they wont jump it. If they can see through the will jump or bolt through wire fences!
After 25 years of struggling with them I no longer use fences, I just plant all tried and true plants that deer do not eat:
Succulents (all types)
Lilies
Daffodil
Rosemary
Thyme
Iris
Daisy
Lavender
Tarragon
Oregano
Sage
Mint
Nasturtium
Peonies
Onion
Cactus
Jasmine
Poppies
Dandelion (it is a plant not just a weed 😊)
Deer dont eat pungent plants and plants that grow from a bulb or rhizomes.
Many of these plants flower and are fragrant.
You covered it all! Especially the advice to spray weekly in Spring etc. I have used Liquid Fence deer repellent for over 14 years. We are able to have tulips, hostas etc (close to the house) as long as we spray consistently… I would also suggest to spray in evening. That way the smell is fresh when deer come by. I have seen leaf burn if I spray when sunny..
9:47 Set a Sunday night reminder….
I use Liquid Fence for Deer and rabbit. I also purchased a back pack garden sprayer at Harbor Freight for around $30.00. I have had it approx 5 years, use it all summer every year and it is still working great !
Thats what I use and it works very well.
Thank you for the sprayer info
i am considerably older than you are, so my 1 or 2 gallon sprayers are quite heavy to haul around. i set the filled sprayer in the red wagon the grands outgrew.
Great idea! I use my riding mower, I put the garden spray between my feet and ride around spraying weeds to kill and for deer.
We spray deer repellent for customers. Good idea to spray under the leaves, especially the hostas. Spraying under the leaves helps keep the liquid spay on when it rains. Really is important to use a type of "stickler"/adjuvant that acts like a glue to make liquid stick to plants. This can be as simple as a little dish soap, raw egg, or a commercial product from a box store/online. We use a bittering agent in our repellent. It's the single most effective ingredient. The deer might mingle and taste but they wont eat the plants , they will just move on. Highly recommend a battery backpack sprayer with an extendable wand.
Thanks for sharing those tips!
Good idea!!
what is a 'bittering agent?
@@hal7ter
I use ground up peppers soaked in water then spray the plants every day.
That way I have a beautiful garden........... and then it rains 2 days in a row and the garden is stripped bald.
And I start over. Again and again and again.
Just a little tip. No such thing as “deer resistant plants”. When the deer herds get to big and the winter comes and they get hungry cause of the lack of food, deer will eat the siding off your house if they think it has nutrients in it. The BEST way to keep your garden deer free is to hunt them. I know some of you don’t want to hear that, but if we don’t hunt them they will literally starve to death. They’ll get to a place where their numbers will be to great and they will eat everything until theirs nothing left and they will ALL starve.
Isn't it kind of funny that so many people are against hunting for food that will be eaten (e.g., deer), but they're having hamburgers for supper through a much crueller system of food obtainment than shooting a deer and field dressing it. My dad was a hunter, as were almost all farmers, and we ate squirrel, rabbit, and birds that he shot. He wasn't a deer hunter, but we obtained deer meat from those who were.
@@chines68 I too am from a subsistence hunting family and can't wait for it to be deer season so my son or neighbor or someone who knows my plight will take out the deer currently eating my garden .I can't wait for tenderloin and revenge for my poor plants..
That's what my son says.
@maxinemcclurd1288 I agree with you! I look forward to having my son thin the herd. Out of about 800 -900 daylily blooms I saw about 4 this year. I did spray but wasn't fast enough after a heavy rain fall.
You’re hilarious! I live in a national forest and so many deer issues. I will say that motion sensor sprinklers are awesome and kind of game changer in keeping deer out of garden beds.
Could you please tell what kind do you use? Thanks!
That actually sounds like a good idea.
A "game changer"??! So what type of game do you get instead of deer? Lol
Kidding aside, (which ‘kids’ are goats, right?) I just deployed a motion activated sprinkler. Good to know they can work. Hopefully I find myself ‘fawning’ over my sprinkler.
Yes!! Thanks for doing this video! We currently don’t have a deer problem but we will be moving to the country in the spring where I’m sure there will be plenty! Good to know deer resistant plants may not be resistant after all. I will definitely be going the spraying route!
A-chasing the wild deer and following the roe... You are so nice and it is to interesting to listen to you.
I just started watching you the last few weeks. I love you. Getting into that sprayer made me laugh out loud truly! Thanks for the good info!
I was actually really excited my neighborhood deer family let me enjoy one whole lily bloom before they are the stalk to the ground (they've been doing this for years now and that lily keeps coming back every year). I don't dislike the deer but I want to put in a hydrangea hedge along one of their pathways through my yard so I'm glad to see a manageable solution!
You were hilarious talking to that deer, a lot nicer than I’ve been, lol! They eat my some of my roses but not all of them, weird... Never touch my lilies or my hydrangeas either. Now I’ve done it, put it out there, lol!
Great video. I have just started to get deer in my gardens the last two years. Yes I spray just like you do. Not hard to do, and saves my plants and flowers.
I'm so excited you are using that sprayer, i think my Hubby Brad recommended it to you as well, we love it!!!
Tell Brad thank you!!!!
"HEY, ONWARD"... dasher, dancer... gotta say this is your most entertaining vid yet!!!
The tank from Ghostbusters now going after Deer ! We’ve had success with a motion sprinkler they set it off and the run like the dickens. We had a Buck staring at us in the front window sticking its tongue out at my wife the Gardner with her newly planted Day lily hanging offs it’s lips! That’s when I installed the motion sprinkler so far so good.
Thank you so much for this video, until we saw your video we had tried everything, nothing worked for very long until they get accustomed to it. Then, we were told about something you can make yourself:
Put 3 eggs (shell and all) in blender, add 1/2 gallon whole milk then the contents of a shaker bottle of Cyane pepper powder. Blend it all up and put in 1 gallon jug, add water to make it 3/4 full so you can shake it before use. Set it in the sun with lid loose for 2 weeks until it smells terrible.
The deer will get one taste of it and then associate it with the smell. They don't even come in our yard anymore, they hate it.
We've used it for 3 years and it is just great! I apply it with a paintbrush in a small ice cream bucket then just sling it onto the plants. It really doesn't take much.
Do you spray it on the plants?
Brilliant suggestion to have a four foot fence and another four foot fence. This is so helpful. This idea saved my garden. I have a four foot fence around my garden. And i have only a few places where the deer could jump. So i moved my garden swing in front of one area and a cage i have for apple trees in front of the other accessible fence section! So far so good.
thank you for answering my question regarding the deer problem we have. This link was helpful. ill experiment this growing season.
You are so nice about asking the deer to leave your garden! I usually run outside screaming “get the h*ll out of here, you over grown goat”
Always I put up new wind chimes this and started using Repells-all and only have been visited by a deer once this spring/ summer
The snow clip made my day!
Great post! Our holy grail is Bobex! We've used for a good 7 years now. Hubby has reminder on his phone for every 2 weeks. You are so right though as to what they prefer to eat in different locations. Our deer here in Washington don't touch hostas. When I lived in Minnesota, they ate them like candy.
I do feel your pain! I laughed out loud about the egg spray plugging issue. I moved to the Long Beach peninsula in Washington, 7 years ago, with 50 rose bushes and gardening plans. I finally got closer to keeping them out of the roses with commercial deer spray, but as you said, rain is no help for that. I finally bought two sets of 7 foot tall metal arches and stood them up in my 34 ft by 6 ft homage to Monet's Grand Alley and surrounded them with heavy duty deer mesh. My fondest moment was one morning looking down on my masterpiece watching a deer standing on the outside looking in at my newly budding roses. He gave up and went looking for something else. Will be going through more of your tubes for more insight. Cheers!
I used this method for the first time this year...the backpack is a dream!! My husband joked about my purchase until he watched it in use. Now he has ordered one for his yard projects (I won't share). Thank you for this very helpful video!!
Awesome to see what works good on the deer there such a pain in the you no !!!
I love your sense of humor. Subscribed!
That deer clip was hilarious the first time and hilarious the second! 😂
The Deer Stopper tape soaked in the solution works great and reusable for years. We attach it to stakes in the ground around our flower beds and it has broken the deer paths through our property
Oh that’s great to know! I haven’t tried that. Maybe I’ll get some for winter.
I could not find the recipe for your deer repellent you mentioned in your video. Thank you for all the information you offered. Great Video.
I don't even have deer and I just watched your video from beginning to end. Dang, you're good!
Oh Erin I’m so glad we don’t have deer in our English gardens. What a performance you have to go through. But I love the way you were pumping up the spray, it looks like you are about to walk onto the moon in that outfit 😁 love your videos, always watch them 😁
Early in the season I planted some garlic cloves in the same bed. I don't plan to eat the garlic I just want the smell as the deer hate it(or so I've read). Later in the season I planted some society garlic near my hydrangeas. This plant has beautiful edible flowers and leaves. SO FAR SO GOOD!
During the winter we actually had a youngish deer nibble on the faux trees on my front porch ( only 2 steps) . I sprayed them with Irish Spring soup. Just a few shavings of the soap in water. Thats what I have been using during the summer on my sedums which the deer love. Our herd just decimated 3 shrubs ( it’s March in NJ) I planted last year plus an older Rhododendron so I am going to try the Messina product.
Aww that teddy bear 🧸 so cute 💙
Thank you for sharing the great information.
Good info as always
Very informative. Thank you for posting this!!
I use a mixture of Irish Spring body wash and water - about one half cup of body wash and 8 litres of water in a sprayer...so far so good! Need to re-spray after rain, and/or every few days. I also sprinkle grated Irish spring soap around some higher demand deer plants..
Thanks!
Tried electric fencing. Works great but it has to be permanent and always hot. Like other animals they will test it with their noses once they know it's there. If they don't sense power it's game on.
I hunted for a very long time but no longer do. I have a small herd of deer that live with me here now and I try to coexist with them. Beautiful and interesting critters. We just have our arguments.
Hanging pieces of Irish spring soap works! I saw on a video in an orchard, they hung pieces every 2-3 trees. I am trying it in zone 3 Canada and it is working!!
The deer were eating my flowers so I bought corn for them. They ate the corn and had the flowers for dessert. I make deer repellent that works good, but my yard is smaller than yours.
I just burst out laughing at your comment, so funny! =D
😅🤣😂
But corn can kill deer
They love it - eat whole
Bags of chicken feed
Interesting video.. pretty much my experience too. I tried your backpack sprayer and subsequently a gas powered one ( even heavier ) then I discovered a Makita 18v battery powered one and its a game changer, really light and hand held... I purchase a gallon of neem oil ( my insecticide of choice ) and two litres of cinnamon oil (which I mix with soap ) for the deer repellent and that lot lasts two years and costs about 130 bucks direct from India to here in Japan...
Yes, they try a lot of different things. Deer didn't use to mess with my raspberries but a fawn tried them one year now my raspberries have been nibbled down to the shin height every year since. She clearly tried it and liked it.
I use liquid fence for the deer but I also deal with a stinkin armadillo! I will put cayenne pepper around the base of the plants. Works most of the time. Depends how hungry he is I guess. Thanks for the other options of repellent.
Like your mixing idea...🤣
I will try your suggestions! Those stinkers ate cosmos, okra, sunflowers, hibiscus, ancho peppers, lilies, milkweed, and of course my roses all in ONE NIGHT!! I have over an acre of gardens planted. As bummed as I was to see it, I replanted and will try the repellents. I live in Florida and will have to apply often as it rains heavily here through the season. ❤️
So sorry- that was so much hard work spoiled. I’ve been there. I vacillate with wanting to kill them in the summer and wanting to feed them through a rough winter. Weird.
I don’t have deer (yet) Neighbors say they graze 2 blocks up. 👀 I’ll watch any video you make because you are, in fact, a dear! 😘
Oh my gosh. That it's how I talk to my deer too! My family thinks I'm silly! Unfortunately deer don't have the same list of deer repellent plants that we do, so it really does depend on your location and the number of deer that come to your yard.
I live in Birmingham, AL in a large neighborhood, and have never seen deer and armadillo damage like this place (been here 4 years). My neighbor has trapped FOUR armadillos this summer already. We deal with lots of rabbits as well. I have used a lot of products in the yard, including Bobbex, dog hair, cayenne pepper, but have settled on spraying Liquid Fence and sprinkling another repellent. This is the first year I have hostas! Every summer I look out to see if the deer have wandered by the “salad bar,” to have a meal. This year, I was very faithful early on with the spray and I think that made a difference. I also did what Erin did, and sprayed head level of the perimeter of my yard. So far, so good. I’ve also learned that deer resistant isn’t really a thing if they are hungry. This experience has taught me so much! Great info here, so thank you!
Hey, just a note to let you know that the deer hate the smell of ivory soap. I hang baggies in my fruit trees and no longer have any deer damage. I learned this little trick from the local Mennonites. They even grate it up and sprinkle it on the perimeter of their gardens.
Edited note: I don't recommend spraying soap in liquid form on your plants as it will often kill the leaves. A very watered down mix might work but try it on something you don't care if it dies...or a weed first...ha ha
Hahaha....I know I feel funny trying to put the loaded back pack sprayer on my back. I use the whole four gallons full I fill it up on my picnic table and then I just back up to it and slip the shoulder straps on.
Thank you so much, deer are eating my buttered popcorn daylilies. I will give these products a try. Love and enjoy watching your videos.
Just add in a movie to go with that buttered popcorn...Bambi perhaps?
I have had very good success with Irish spring soap. The soap cuts easily. I cut each bar into three or four pieces and place a piece at the base of each hosta plant. By the end of the season the soap disappears from the water. I forgot to place soap in a couple pots where I put some hosta and those are the only ones the deer ate. They didn't touch the hosta that was nearby in the ground because it had the soap.
Hey you answered all my deer question😏 I have a deer that comes into the yard the edge of the yard upon occasion. I only see tracks. . Has an eaten anything yet and we were thinking about putting some repellent out there to teach him or her to go somewhere else.
Great info. Thanks!
gorgeous puppy
Super attracted to you. Just my first thought after seeing your video. Very genuine vibe you have.
Yep finally started a nice size garden & the deer ate just about everything & what they didn’t eat they bite into & dropped. Learned a big lesson I just bought chicken wire & about to put it up. Also bought “Deer Off” not sure if it will work yet.
After having new hosta plants eaten before I even got them in the ground, I went the fishing line route. I was planting a long shade garden at the edge of the woods so made a 'fence’ of fishing line that the deer can't see at night. Easy to string around bed area using trees at 3 feet or so high - could also use stakes, but I didn’t need to since at the edge of woods. I also spray occasionally just to mix it up a bit and discourage the little guys. So far, I've added mu;triple hosta this summer with only the first-time fatalities. As my garden areas grow along the woods, I may well try the spray you recommend since my vision for that shade area will rely on lots more hosta. Enjoy your channel!!
Fishing line works for me also. I live in the woods too. Also Plant Skydd works well and lasts a long time. Sometimes I make a lighter solution just because... Mainly new growth.
@@52janethatcher Thanks for the comments, can I ask how you put your string up and how far away from the bed or plants and what size string did you use
@@52janethatcher yes I would also like to know how you went about it. I did it but evidently I didn’t put the lines close enough or something
I love the idea of using fishing line to create an invisible fence. I could definitely do this at the back of my yard where the woods start. Thank you for the great idea.
Fishing line will cut their legs. I've seen it and it's not pretty. I have a herd of 8, and am at my wit's end, but I just can't resort to harming them.
So funny....you asking the deer to leave, so politely. I do that too, but not so politely...and one or two occasions, dropped an "f" bomb...lol.
My husband will fill the backpack sprayer on an outdoor table. Then he backs into it to slip the shoulder/hip straps on. It’s so heavy he has to lean forward at first to walk!
😄Oh my word, you shaming the deer, and using your dog as a potential "weapon" was as funny as me taking after a hawk, perched on my deck rail, eating the head off a sparrow, and me thinking I can get it with a broom! P.S. My yellow lab was no help either. 😂😂😂
I use a homemade deer and rabbit repellant and when ready to use I strain it through an old tea towell, or double layered cheesecloth then put it in my pump sprayer or backpack sprayer. I also use blood meal tossed around the garden and directly on some plants. We have a horrific deer and rabbit problem here in the PNW!
What a great idea to strain it through cheesecloth!
Milorganite fertilizer spread along my garden perimeter has worked beautifully for me for several years. I apply it by hand about every 3 months...easy peasy.
Is that fertilizer deer repellent?? 🤔
@@janig2831 it's not advertised as a deer repellent I don't think. But it's the best I have found. Yes, melorganite is a fertilizer.
I live in northern WI and deer resistant plants is a thing of fantasies 😂😭😭😭 come fall NOTHING is deer resistant 🙃 I use deer stopper currently and I’ve used what I can find at walmart - liquid fence... the liquid fence has worked fine through summer but all bets are off in the fall - have to stay very diligent. 🤞🏻we’ll see how deer stopper does 🤞🏻I also put up physical barriers where I can - they are savages 😂😂😂
Northern Wisconsin here too! Worse is neighbors who feed the local deer population. They aren't afraid of my dog or me & stomp their feet at me when I try to chase them out of my yard. Very frustrating!
Love the dog.
I'm going to try spraying again this year, and do it weekly like you mention. I sprayed a few times last year, but it wasn't with the fogging pump...just a regular sprayer that shoots soaking bits. Didn't coat plants well, but I did perimeter too. I didn't do it often enough, so the deer decimated my perennial garden ...all deer resistant plants of course. 🙄 They loved the coral bells, lilies, and coneflower leaves. Coreopsis as well. I even put out a thing that makes high pitch sound that supposedly deters critters....nope. We have a driveway alert that dings inside when someone passes on the way up driveway....they come through nightly, and pass our front yard (and perennial garden 😭) on the way through to our neighbors house. Honestly not sure anything will help, but I'm willing to try. I snapped a photo last year of triplet fawns in backyard eating my young tomato plants. Between deer and rabbits, we're lucky to have a few plants.
I have high deer pressure in my area, and I use scarecrow water sprinklers. They honestly work great!!! I've used them for the past 4 years and no deer damage.
Sarah, what kind of water sprinkler do you use? Thank you.
inkagogo Here’s a link to the exact one I use. If you live in the US, they will probably be cheaper from amazon.
www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/contech-scarecrow-animal-deterrent-0593767p.html
0:50 The Canadian method of deer control. Love it!! 😂
I had a similar conversation with a rabbit today in my garden. I even ran towards it waving my arms and growling. 🤣
I've tried that too, but the big males just sat on their haunches, staring at me till I got pretty close and then slowly without fear would hop away.
I do the same😂😂
Yep. Our big male rabbit, which we've named Roger, just stares at us until we get about a foot away. Shoot, sometimes he just stretches and litarally lays down to take a nap unless I run right at him, yelling and stomping and waving my arms.
I have to deal with squirrels, raccoons and skunks and I thought I had it bad, but deer problems are another level.
Don't forget the rabbits. And we have box turtles that love our strawberries.
Hopefully you do a hydrangeas tour soon ... 😍😍 !!!
You're so funny, thanks for this info🌾🌾
👍Thank you so much for this video !
I have tried bobbed and plantskydd with pretty good results. Will definitely try deer stopper. I hate it when the deer get a bit of attitude and start huffing back at me. Such jerks.
your so polite to the deer :)
All lives matter🧡😊
"Who you gonna call?.....ERIN!" love the ghostbuster reference in the comments! Do you do garden calls to Ontario,lol? Your garden looks great! Thanks for your time and experience!
Omg I love this video, especially the part where you talk about the battery. Have you tried Repellex? It’s a systemic. I started using it this year and so far so good.
Entertaining - Well presented. Yes deer are a problem for me too-i change it up as best i can -respray after rain etc - seems to work reasonable well compared to neighbors that don't appear to object to providing a salad bar. Gradually each season the area has fewer flowers/plants to enjoy as the deer population expands. Thank you
I wish there was something like that for wood rats. They nip off young plants at the base and use them to line their nests. I found all of my pea plants one year tucked into a space in the wood pile.
We have great success spraying with Bobbex, which is a clear liquid, or the Scarecrow Brand motion detector sprinklers. I am not sure you can still buy them.
Omg!!! I started to read the comments and didn’t even paid attention in the video... except for the beautiful deer family you have there!!! They’re absolutely adorable!!
No idea Repels works for me here in NC mountains. Do have to reapply every 2 weeks to 30 days. 1 year using and so far it’s working. Doesn’t smell real nice but smell goes away within 24 to 36 hours. It’s natural so I am happy with product.
I have to spray every 7 to 9 days. I have let it go for the winter, which I know I will regret once the snow melts. The deer really do a job on the rhododendron - thought they were poisonous.
Thank you for a very informative video...lots of good ideas and variety of experiences. I did not know about deer being able to jump high but not far. I believe I will double fence with 5' and 4' fences. See if that will discourage them. Loved your puppy 'assistant.' Or was that your supervisor/producer? Again, thanks for the help with having to duke it out with these freeloader deer. Jesus bless.
Thanks for this! I'm sure you are right about the favorite plants of deer varies from region to region. The in my garden deer don't bother my hostas. They do a number on my roses and daylily buds if I don't spray. They will turn to my hydrangea and even my impatiens in early fall. My success has been with Liquid Fence Deer and Rabbit repellent. Tried coyote granules, tried a home made mix, nothing worked. I apply the Liquid Fence weekly in the spring and it seems to almost train the deer to go elsewhere. I then can apply it once every 2 or 3 weeks. Then the fawns come and all bets are off. We start the cycle again. The struggle is real!
First time I see one of your videos and loved your raw nature and sense of humor!! Of course, I am now a subscriber as I am a new gardener who has had a Hosta and a hibiscus fall victim to deer (I think). I say I think because I was watching another video, which only had a lady’s voice that sounded like a robot (very annoying), and it said that if your plants have bite marks that are straight cuts, it’s probably not deer because deer don’t have front teeth to cut sharply. The robot said deer tend to pull at plants. My Hibiscus and Hosta literally looked like someone had come with a pair of scissors and cut them. No kidding!! When the Hibiscus was attacked I really thought I had a mean neighbor who was jealous of my beautiful plant and came over to cut it. LOL The Hibiscus had just started to bloom. It had a gorgeous yellow flower. I told my husband it looked like the sun. It was still in a container. When I went out to water it, I couldn’t believe the beautiful flower gone and all the buds were gone!! The stems looked like someone had taken scissors and cut all the buds. HAHAHA. I’m still laughing at myself because I remember looking around wondering which neighbor would have done this. It was just such perfect cuts. With your experience, is that a deer or some other animal I’m dealing with?
I think rabbit make nice perfect cuts.
I can share what has not worked (I live between 2 small pieces of land that belong to my town, so I can’t fence in). We tried hanging old (shiny) CDs - didn’t work. We also tried human hair (not successful). We use deer stopper with some success, and we alternate products. Sadly one missed application and they “seem to know” and leave damage as evidence.
Thanks for sharing your strategy.
LOL! that's like me! I have a state park very (very) close to me. And I have a dog too. But, no effect...!
Bobbex Repellents are the best!
Loved this video, I planted 3 huge hostas 4 years ago, and last year, they were eaten to the ground. It had to be deer, they are huge. I have clove and cinnamon oil, plus garlic and black pepper, stinky soap. I am going to mix it together, spray it over and under, then throw my urine around the perimeter just for fun. I want to do it cheap. They don't like Asiatic lilies, thank god. They are all in full bloom, glorious, they just love my hostas.
I'll have to disagree....they just ate every bud on my Asiatic and daylilies. Then they destroyed my knockout roses. 😭
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Thanks so much!... I want to know where I can get that Aralia!.. I got “Sun King” and I LOVE IT!
Funny, my deer have never touched my hydrangeas. But they will chow geraniums which my neighbor says they they don't touch. I'm saving for a fence so I can have roses again. Ive tried repellents but my husband can't stand the smell and so it repels him too. Ive had some success with blood meal stakes at the perimeter.
That’s so funny. I went out last night and yelled shoo to the deer from my porch. I had to start walking toward it before it lazily moved on.