Now is the time to put some forethought into your spring planting to help prevent the woodland population from turning it into a salad bar. By choosing the perennials and shrubs, a gardener or landscaper can plan ahead to fight off the local animal population in the latter months of the year. This is a [...] Read more »
Landscaping With Deer Resistance In Mind
Deer can tear up a piece of property or yard in short order when unchecked. There is a wide range of products available to help keep them from eating vegetables and flowers, but these are normally not the only foliage in the area. There can be an easy solution to this and it just takes [...] Read more »
Perimeter Protection For Your Plants And Trees
The pride and joy of any home for many people is their garden or flowerbeds. These can bring hours of pleasure tending them and watching them grow to maturity. In an hour or two of unsupervised access, two or three deer can make short work of all the plants and trample down the ones they [...] Read more »
Which Is The Best Homemade Deer Repellent?
Image via Wikipedia The majority of people out there who have issues with deer have tried just about every remedy on the market. Quite a few of them, after spending more money than they wanted to, revert to trying some of their own concoctions. For the most part, these have some pretty standard ingredients and [...] Read more »
Texas Pete and Eggs – Home-made Recipe
photo credit: sky#walker Here is another recipe from www.forthgo.com When we had a landscaper over to consult on, among other things, installing some deer fencing so we could plant some more perennials, he suggested a much cheaper solution. He gave us his homemade deer repellent recipe, and it’s been working fine for two months now. [...] Read more »
Swedish Deer Repellent
photo credit: akeg I came across this little gem of a recipe as I was surfing the net. It is from www.humseeds.com. Ed Hume is a gardening guy with a blog. I have not tried this, yet. It was recommended by another Garden Writer. Hope it works! Swedish Skewers — Deer-Repellent Cubes: Mix 2.5 lbs [...] Read more »
The famous “Natural Deer Repellent”
Urine is it. This is from blulow.com. photo credit: Glen Bowman Last year we didn’t have a deer problem because we allowed Fido to pee wherever he chose; the front yard, side yard or back yard. It didn’t make a difference as long as it wasn’t in the house. It was a wonderful natural deer [...] Read more »