On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 14:51:09 +0000, Winston Smith wrote:

How can I keep the deer from destroying my landscape? Are there any
methods known to man that will keep them out of my plants? Are there some
nice looking plants that they will not eat? Any rational ideas would be
greatly appreciated. Thanks!


I have to deal with deer alot and very little works on a permanent basis.
Sprays wear off with time or rain and planting deer resistant plants will
only work so well also. The young deer will tast everything once it seems.
The one thing that I have found that works really well is a double fence.

It turns out deer have very bad eye sight and they can not tell
depth perception very well at all. If you were to put up a fence that was
3.5 feet tall and another fence that was 4 feet tall seperated by 3 or 4
feet, this would be rather effective. Granted that this is *not* deer
proof and that one or two deer will learn to jump it, but the other fourty
will not.

I've had people argue that deer can jump 12+ feet over a fence and this is
true, but for them to gage the distance of two fences with a space between
is very hard. I've seen up close and personal what the deer will do when
confronted with this type of fence. I've installed this fence on a clients
property of lummi island where the deer are thick and plenty. In three
years we've had about 3 deer a year on the property and most of them
climbed the cliff to get there. We have watched the deer attempt to jump
the fences and it's a bit humorous.

If a fence it not cost effective for you then your only other option is to
get a dog that listens well to you and like to chase deer 80)

Good luck.

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