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Keeping Deer Away
What are some of your tips to keep deer away from your gardens and landscaping? I feel like I am going to have a lifelong war with these animals and want to get a headstart on them this year if at all possible.
Re: Keeping Deer Away
Deer-resistant plants
Not planting/displaying anything that will attract them (learned the hard way with cornstalks over Halloween)
Our little Irish rose came to us on March 5, 2010
Don't drink the water.
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We use a "Deer Away" spray - similar to Liquid Fence. When we built the house and landscaped, we used all "deer resistant" plants. Unfotunately, what we've found is that, if they're hungry enough, they'll eat anything. The spray works really well - I spray twice a season unless we have very severe rains - if that happens, I'll spray again. It smells awful prior to drying but it works! GL.
This. We live in the woods so deer are just a fact of life but I haven't had any problems with them eating my plants so far. Partially because they have plenty of other food to eat and partly because I try to buy more deer resistant plants. Like the pp said if they are hungry enough they will eat anything so it's more of a scale of how much they like something. Winter is the hardest time for them so when I planted a bunch of evergreens last year I used this as a guide:
http://www.richsfoxwillowpines.com/advice_and_how-tos/articles/the_buck_stops_here.php
It was hard to find a variety of dwarf conifers that grows in the shade and the deer don't like! The conifers the deer liked more I kept next to the house where they haven't come yet (probably because we have a dog).
oh, the deer. our neighbors feed the deer...... the momma, daddy, and babies. we recently built our own home, and landscaped a bit. we planted brand new trees - apples, cherries, rhododendrons, wheeping trees, and a few others. needless to say the deer loved our trees. we sprayed a deer off spray about two feet from the base all the way around. we also peed in cups and dumped those around the trees. after i cut dh's hair we took the clippings and put them around the base of the trees. it certainly all helped! until the snow came anyways. once the snow came we put up a fence around each of the trees in the dark while it was sleeting and snowing! the deer have not come back!
good luck!