How to Control Deer in Your Garden

By DEB (Guest Post)

I have big boulders surrounding our home. I realize I have not had any deer problem while all the other people with gardens in the area do and we live right in the woods and see many deer around so I'm sure the deer are afraid to cross the big rocks but these boulders were there on are land when we built our home.

By

NellieMary

It is now august and the deer have not bothered our garden. It seems to be working.

By

penguinforhire

The Green Gardenista recommends sprinkling powdered milk as deer hate the taste of milk once they have been weened. Here's the link to her complete recommendation:

http://www.greengardenista.com/blog ... p-diy-deer-repellant-with-dried-milk

Hope this helps!

Chris

By

awiggi

I live in the woods of Minnesota. I use Milorganite. A very inexpensive pelletized fertilizer. Just sprinkle all around where you don't want deer and they will leave them alone! I reapply small amounts after a rain. I have also found that cayote urine works well too. You can find it at most nurseries and even hardware stores. I use the small plastic hangers with the cotton ball in it and this lasts for a solid month even with rain. Good luck

By

NellieMary

We live in the country and have had deer in our back field where there is plenty of browse to eat. Often they sleep back there. I put a garden behind our horse barn in the sun. My husband put up a scarecrow that looks like a man. We also play an old battery operated radio at night. Not so loud to wake the neighbors but enough that they think we are around. We also have two dogs that I walk there in the evening. So far--so good. I'll keep you posted.

By Gerald Groomes (Guest Post)

My Mom uses this trick, which seems to work fairly well. Visit your local barber/beauty shop and ask them to save the hair clippings- drop little handfuls of hair around the perimeter of your garden.
Refresh the hair clippings every 2-3 wks, or after a couple of heavy rain showers. Good luck!

By

Amandablue

I use Deer Away which I purchase at a garden supply store. I buy the big bottle of concentrate mixture about $40. I mix it according to the directions, put it in a spray bottle and away I go! Usually spray before a rain, then once or twice more, then like monthly or so. My veggie garden has a wire fence which I tie cut up old socks. Spray the socks with the Deer Away. A bottle of this stuff takes me the whole season. Don't forget around the flower beds and young trees. This stuff really works!

By Soochatty (Guest Post)

I use DeerOff. It works great. You just have to remember to spray your plants after each rain.

By Becky (Guest Post)

As a hairstylist, I have lots of customers ask me to save hair when I perform a haircut. The customers use it to place around the perimeter of their garden and tell me that it keeps the deer from eating their corn. I haven't tried it, but I have been collecting hair for customers for years. Hope it works.

By Needa (Guest Post)

I live in Mississippi and this is what my dad used to do to keep deer out of his garden.
Take several strips of fabric and spray them with perfume and tie the strips around your garden. The deer won't go near it.

By

dameemag

Hi Sherrie,
We live back in the woods and have all kinds of deer so we have tried all kinds of things. Finally we put 6 metal stakes around the garden and ran 2 strands of 20 lb fish line around it. One at about 3 feet and one at 1 foot. They will walk up to it and can't see it and when they hit it they take off. We have been doing this for about 5 years and works like a charm. We did leave an opening to go in but have stopped that because they got smart and went in the 2 foot opening. They are really smart. Hope this helps. dameemag from Rothbury, Mi

By payhoun (Guest Post)

Human hair will keep deer our of gardens, etc. Go to a chain salon that cuts alot of hair and ask them if you can pick up a bag of hair each week. They will probably welcome having less bags to take to the dumpster.

By rae (Guest Post)

We fenced off 1/3 acre of grapes by usiing four foot wide farm fencing (looks like chicken wire )and 6 foot high poles, 40 feet apart. The wire fencing is on the bottom and then we have two rows of string above on the rest of the post. The deer think the fence is actually 6 foot high. I looks better than 6 foot fencing and is cheaper. We have to replace the string every now and then. We couldn't get our grapes to grow for almost 6 years until we tried this. For a smaller area, one of the "scarecrow "devices hooked up to your hose that sprays deer when they walk past it works well too.

By DIana (Guest Post)

Deer use our yard as a thoroughfare to the river They eat everything in sight. We use Deer off or something similarly named. It was purchased from the hardware store and works like a charm!

By brandy (Guest Post)

Sprinkle perimeter of garden with human hair. Sounds crazy but works. s
Stop at local beauty shop and ask for the trash they put hair in. Wear gloves and sprinkle it around perimeter.