Another deer repellent idea to try
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Comments (15)Using a baseball bat ends up bruising the meat something awful! So does using the car or truck. Trip wires kinda work and the only thing that really does the job is properly installed deer fencing. Deer evidentally have an underground newsletter where they fill each other in on which yard has which plant and which human has the best aim... So, you may think you can outsmart them but it seems that nature always gets the prize. I have connections to some elder hippies that moved to the country to organically grow produce and herbs. When they first moved to the wilderness they were total peace-niks, blessing their newly planted trees with pyramids, smudge smoke, and rythmic beatings on a tom-tom. Nowadays their conversations have an entirely different flavor. They are advanced marksmen and giggle with glee while they chase wildlife into corners or up a tree to blast away at them. One most disturbing story is when they were both driving down the gravel driveway and came upon a young buck. The wife (who was driving) pulled the truck off the road and rammed the deer up into the pasture fence where it got its hooves and antlers entangled. She jumped out and started wrestling with the beast while her husband stood by the vehicle with his jaw agape. The true sign that things had changed for these two was when she immobilized the traumatized deer with her bare hands by wrapping his back legs around each other and yelled back over her shoulder for a something to bash its head in with - a hammer! a shovel! anything!!! I'm not that coarse. And I like venison, but for some reason they haven't found my unfenced backyard....See MoreHelp on a school project regarding deer repellents
Comments (2)Here's some advice, and then a link to a great site that can help with all of this. First of all, I know you are still in the planning stages, but you have an awful lot of 'variables' built in here... You might want to narrow down to three or four plants, and two or three treatments. If you really need to use as many as five plants, I would pare down that list of repellents to 4, max. Check them out and see if they all work by 'smell', or some by 'taste'. Narrow down to the ones by smell. Or if they all are this, pick the four most popular. Or something. Narrow down the list. It's good you have an acre to work with. First think about what that acre looks like. Is one side nearer a place where the deer might be coming from, such as a wooded area? Or is the acre pretty much 'even' in terms of deer approaches? Is it 'open field'? Or are there other plantings around the acre? This will matter in terms of how the plants/treatments are laid out. [Random placement.... or altering that to try to compensate for the complications.] You will want to keep at least one plant of each type 'untreated', for your control. (If that acre is more complicated than open field, two is better.) Then you will want to use the same treatment on the same individual plant, throughout the experiment. IE, hosta 1 is control. No treatment. Hosta 2 gets treatment X. Hosta 3 gets treatment Y. Etc. Be sure to label them somehow. You have no way of knowing how long a treatment of a particular plant will last. You don't want to mix treatments on the same plant. You will want to pick plants that are all in the same stage of growth. All grownup plants. [If you have some that are tender young things and others that are well-set adult plants, you just add more complications, more variables.) Mature tomatoes, mature hostas, good. Other vegetables or perennials you can get mature and cheap? If you have well-established clover you can chunk out and plant where you want it, great. They don't have to be the same *size*, but they need to not be a mix of seedlings, young plants, established plants. Sorry if this is confusing.... Here's the link below. Great site, specifically for this kind of thing. After you've thought about all the stuff above, be sure to see the tab that says "Ask An Expert". If I can help, email me. leoandlinda @ provide.net Here is a link that might be useful: Science Buddies...See MoreRepelling Deer Improvement?
Comments (6)About the DMSO and pets roaming the yard, if you wanted to be very cautious I'd let it dry before letting pets wander. Ask anyone that has horses and they'll tell you that they rub all kinds of linaments and medications onto horses with DMSO. Some people rub DMSO directly on their own skin at full strength. It's about as harmful as putting an ounce of alcohol into a solution of a gallon. About those items at Lowes - geez, the reviews at Lowe's own site are mostly terrible. About the Milorganite. I'm a lawn freak and use three tons (no kidding!) of the stuff on my property per year. It works, but the deer get accustomed to it after a while. The same thing with Blood Meal....See MoreDo homemade deer repellents work?
Comments (10)I don’t have a deer problem yet but if I did I would install wooden stakes about 2 feet high (higher than the rose bushes) around one of the flower beds, paint them white and attach a 1/2 inch diameter pvc pipe to each stake. The pipe being just 6 inches long would just clear the top of the stake by an inch. Into that pipe I would insert a bare strong piece of wire (#9 gauge) that I would bend into an L shape. The short part of the L being about 8 inches long, the long part being 3 - 4 feet long. To the end of the 8 inch piece I would solder an insulated (#14 black insulated twisted) wire that ran back to the garage where it would be attached to an Electric Fence unit. To keep the wire out of sight I would peg it to the ground about every 3 feet. After while the grass would completely hide the wire. The Electric Fence unit would be plugged into a timer that turned the system after everyone had gone to bed and off before they got up…. From the first stake I would run wires to the next stake, etc, etc — also painted white. Thus, when the folks are sleeping you touch any of those wires and you get shocked. Since it is not firmly attached to the stake it can swing around out of the way should the deer hit them on their way out. After the deer learn to stay away from the white stakes all I would have to do is drive white stakes around the other flower beds…. Every few months the ‘shocking stakes’ would get moved so the deer don’t learn which one don’t shock. Would it work…. maybe, maybe not, can’t hurt to try….....See Morebillybob_hotmail_com
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