I need your help! Deer eating my garden! (Raleigh: home, neighborhood)

[North_Raleigh_Guy]

Any tips on how to keep deer out of my yard and garden. They are feasting on my square foot garden in N. Raleigh like it is a salad bar. I don't have a fence and I don't think I can put chicken wire up around the garden. Are there any home remedies or commercial repelents I can buy?

Please help me save my garden!

[MikeJaquish]

Good stuff.

Oh... Maybe you had something else in mind?

[JimnSue]

Originally Posted by North_Raleigh_Guy

Any tips on how to keep deer out of my yard and garden. They are feasting on my square foot garden in N. Raleigh like it is a salad bar. I don't have a fence and I don't think I can put chicken wire up around the garden. Are there any home remedies or commercial repelents I can buy?

Please help me save my garden!

I'm having the same problems.......I have planted atleast 100 sunflowers....those little suckers are poking their head thru my wrought iron fence and eating my sunflowers that we all lined up along the fence line......they've also eaten all my hostas that I just bought......

I dont have a garden but if I did I'm sure they'd find a way into it....

I dont know first hand how well this works but its worth a try.....my next door neighbor has 2 small above ground planter boxes/gardens like you had posted pics of .....he read somewhere to break up bars of dove soap and put them around the perimiter of the garden and so far its intact....

The deer have worked hard at getting my plants thru a fence when next door they could walk right into his yard no fence and feast on a variety.....might be chance or it might work.....cant hurt to try it.....

If ya do let me know if it helps.......all i want is sunflowers....so far I have 3 left that were to far in for them to reach.....

Suzanne

[firsttimeowner]

Maybe try eating the deer.

[no kudzu]

NRG I know you post on the gardening forum. There are a zillion suggestions about deer from folks all over the USA. Some work and some don't. I rotate different recipes almost weekly and if I use the sprinklers for the yard and beds in the yard, I spray again. The other night I was outside around 11:30 in my nighrtgown, shoulder harness sprayer and flash light thinking I was safe from view when aloong come 11 ELEVEN cars to attend an after hours party thrown by my neighbors 17 year old daughter-folks out of town. I was horrified but kept right on spraying.

I am saving for a fence and a shotgun.

[adlnc07]

The other week a deer (I assume) ate all the buds off my day lilies in the front yard. I thought someone had picked the flowers, but then I saw some half eaten buds! I don't think I have anything else deer would want to eat, though.

Good luck!

[bull_city_original]

you need multiple solutions

- wolf or human urine
- hot peppers
- human hair
- mechanical scarecrow that moves based on movement seen (sort of like automatic lights)
- like the scarecrow, an automatic noise maker (like a dog whistle, if the whistle doesn't scare of the deer, the dogs barking in the neighborhood likely will)
- 12ga., rifle, 45/50 cal handgun, or bow
- 17 foot or greater fence
- plant enough food for the deer and yourself in multiple locations

[Janecj]

What works for me is an automated, sensor triggered sprinkler system. I have several and it works quite well. When the deer get close, it shoots water at them. It is called a scarecrow. Cost about $100.00.

[Bmateo]

suprisingly, we are having pretty good luck with the old "pie pan on a string" trick.... Just a cheapo aluminum pie pan on a string, on a metal stake. The slightest breeze will cause it to make some noise and scare them off. I figure it's only a matter of time before this becomes inneffective, but so far so good.

FWIW, sunflowers seem to be their favorite. We have a pretty good size garden (planted with a tractor, sized) and put sounflowers in between the corn. They ate the sunflower and left the corn to be eaten up by the drought.

Our cukes, tomatoes, peppers, okra and squash have been kicking "butt". I think the corn is going to be a bust.


Good luck.

[sspekks]

i have heard the human hair part works