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Here Come the Deer again
I had to replace 4 of my roses because of the damage they caused last
year and now they are back. Any new ideas? Anyone tried a new product? I have motion lights have tried hair, Irish Spring soap, pinwheels and probably a dozen other things I can't think of right now. I don't think I can take another year of disappointment. Thanks for any help. MJ |
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Here Come the Deer again
Dog hair. Specifically, undercoat gleanings from the dog brush.
Put a handful at the base of the roses and water it in. It will stick flat to the ground all summer long. Works for me and my veggie garden... let us know if it works for you! If you don't have a dog with an undercoat, maybe ask a friend, or your local groomer. Cheers Sue wrote in message ... I had to replace 4 of my roses because of the damage they caused last year and now they are back. Any new ideas? Anyone tried a new product? I have motion lights have tried hair, Irish Spring soap, pinwheels and probably a dozen other things I can't think of right now. I don't think I can take another year of disappointment. Thanks for any help. MJ |
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Here Come the Deer again
On Apr 15, 12:16*pm, "
wrote: I had to replace 4 of my roses because of the damage they caused last year and now they are back. Any new ideas? Anyone tried a new product? I have motion lights have *tried hair, Irish Spring soap, pinwheels and probably a dozen other things I can't think of right now. I don't think I can take another year of disappointment. *Thanks for any help. MJ I hate to say it but there is no chemical or remedy that works for deer 100% and the most frustrating part is if someone finds something that works, it might not work on the next deer. I work in a nursery and we recommend and have had people have a lot of luck with Liquid Fence, otherwise keep searching for that magical deer cure. I wish you and your roses good luck! |
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"Sue" wrote:
Dog hair. Specifically, undercoat gleanings from the dog brush. Put a handful at the base of the roses and water it in. It will stick flat to the ground all summer long. Works for me and my veggie garden... let us know if it works for you! If you don't have a dog with an undercoat, maybe ask a friend, or your local groomer. I have two dogs and a small herd of deer that live in the woods around my house. The deer pay no attention whatsoever to the dogs. The dogs are in a fenced yard, so they can't actually chase the deer, but the deer commonly graze on one side of the fence with the dogs barking like crazy on the other. One day I looked out my window to see a doe almost nose to nose on the opposite side of the fence with one of the dogs. The dog was barking, the doe seemed mildly curious. Eventually, the doe took off running alongside the fence, the dog followed on its side. I expected the doe to reach the end of the fence and continue into the woods. Instead, she reached the end, stopped, turned around, and the two raced back to the starting point. Only then did the doe calmly walk off into the woods. I'm glad your technique works for you, but I wouldn't bank on it.. |
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Here Come the Deer again
Get a plant they won't eat:
(I know that's old news) http://icwdm.org/handbook/mammals/Deer.asp Page down toward the bottom for the plant list. http://pender.ces.ncsu.edu/files/lib...t%20Plants.pdf http://search.ncsu.edu/ncsu.html?cx=... =Search#1035 Search on "deer resistant plants" That's not going to fix the rose problem, but your other choice is fix your place up like a POW camp with a VERY high(8' fence) that has electricity. wrote: I had to replace 4 of my roses because of the damage they caused last year and now they are back. Any new ideas? Anyone tried a new product? I have motion lights have tried hair, Irish Spring soap, pinwheels and probably a dozen other things I can't think of right now. I don't think I can take another year of disappointment. Thanks for any help. MJ |
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Pat Barber wrote:
That's not going to fix the rose problem, but your other choice is fix your place up like a POW camp with a VERY high(8' fence) that has electricity. Our vegetable garden is surrounded by a wire fence 8' high, without electricity. I don't like the way it looks but there is no choice. No fence = no crops. Deer are not the only problem. A flock of Canada geese lives on a nearby pond. They visit my back yard every day. Geese *love* tomatoes. They will steal any tomato they can reach, with that long neck stuck through the fence. WRT geese, no fence = no tomatoes. Daniel B. Martin |
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On 2009-04-15, wrote:
I had to replace 4 of my roses because of the damage they caused last year and now they are back. Any new ideas? Anyone tried a new product? I have motion lights have tried hair, Irish Spring soap, pinwheels and probably a dozen other things I can't think of right now. I don't think I can take another year of disappointment. Thanks for any help. MJ Here is my first version of a refillable deer repeller that seems to work for me. http://www.instructables.com/id/Deer...er-refillable/ I have since made a second kind but I never put it on instructables. For it I had some 3/4 inch PVC pipe that I cut into 18 inch lengths and I bought some endcaps for it. I marked each pipe at the 6 and 12 inch marks and diagonally sawed them on my bandsaw so I now had two 12 inch pipes with a pointed end I couldput in the ground. I poked paper towels or cotton balls in the 6 inch intact part of the pipe and drilled 4 holes at 90 degree angles Just below where the caps stopped. I spray painted mine black. I used a syringe to squirt a diluted mixture of the deer repellant into them, and put the cap in place. You have to keep them fairly close together. For example every 3-4 feet or in the middle of a 3 foot diameter hosta. I have not put mine out this year, but I have put so much barrier up in the form of movable and fixed fences that I have had no damage yet. Plus the rain means there is more browse in the woods for them to munch on. I do see tracks between my garden and the greenway though. I did a quick job and put 5 photos on flickr. Hope this helps. http://www.flickr.com/photos/level6/...7618411107436/ -- Wes Dukes (wdukes.pobox@com) Swap the . and the @ to email me please. is a garbage address. |
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