Live in Northeast Ohio on 2 wooded acres and want to stop the deer from eating my mums in my flower beds. I need something that is safe to use with children.
2006-10-09 03:01:35 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
You can get hair from your local beauty shop or barber. I know it sounds weird but it works. The deer picks up the human smell & won't come near. I live in rural Oklahoma & have deer come thru all year & they never touch my flowers or vegetable garden. Just spread the hair through out you garden. or you can use a spray of 1 well beaten egg, 1/2 tsp Tabasco sauce in 1 gal water. That also works for rabbits. Can also be painted on tree bark or landscaping timbers.
2006-10-09 03:55:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try human hair. You can get bags from your local barber shop. I'd sugguest a barber shop rather than a beauty shop because the hair tends to be shorter and hides easier in the flower bed. The deer probably wont like the scent of humans and it should keep them away.
2006-10-09 03:04:59 · answer #2 · answered by rdnkchic2003 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use Blood Meal - available in the organic fertilizer section at your garden centre...... make little pouches, using pantyhose, and fill with Blood Meal then tie to fence, stakes or plants at deer nose level.
This is usually more effective than hair.
2006-10-09 03:09:00 · answer #3 · answered by Barbados Chick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best product is called Liquid Fence. I work in L&G Center and we sell a ton of this stuff and all the feedback is positive. Call around and see which local L&G centers carry liquid fence. It comes in ready-to-use quarts and concentrates (that make 4 gal).
2006-10-09 05:40:01 · answer #4 · answered by college kid 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I build small fowl twine cages over my plant existence and youthful trees that i do no longer opt to share with the deer. fowl (fowl) twine is low value and elementary to variety into cages basically sufficiently huge to encompass the plant life. bigger cages will want a timber physique yet rose bush length cages should help themselves with in basic terms a stake in the floor.
2016-12-08 11:25:30 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use a shotgun, with the kids behind you they will be safe. Plus free meat.
2006-10-09 03:09:26 · answer #6 · answered by johnjoe 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You have to spray the plant as soon as it emerges in the spring and then the buds.
2014-08-19 08:43:09 · answer #7 · answered by Beverly 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
put out a salt lick for them away from the finished lawn- -works for me
2006-10-09 08:06:47 · answer #8 · answered by mcnallycarolann 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
human hair
2006-10-09 14:21:03 · answer #9 · answered by monkeydo20 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋