Please help me! I thought about using chicken wire, but it's expensive, hard, and all around kind of ugly. I have squirrel problems, too. but I would really appreciate ideas on this! Thankyou!
I have protected young garden plants with deer netting. Usually I cover a row about 3.5 foot wide at a height of about 15 inches. I remove the netting when the plants get too tall, but usually I have had most problems with deer or rabbits when plants are very small. Deer Netting is a 3/4 inch mesh, black plastic netting that comes in 7 ft wide by 100 ft long rolls and is reasonably priced. I build a simple wood structure of 1'' by 2'' lumber to hold it up and fasten it to the ground with garden or landscape fabric staples. This is described in more detail in the article link below. On taller things like a fencing I have cucumbers climb on, I have hung chunks of smelly soap, strips of dryer fabrics sheets, and sprayed with various homemade repellent sprays (recipes found on line, see second link below for examples). Sometimes I also lean additional sections of fencing against the first one until the cucumbers are well established. I have also made small tents of window screening for widely spaced individual plants. Good luck!
a fence is the only way, but you could put up a little electric hot wire fence which isn't very noticeable. The only thing with deer, is that they can out jump almost any obstacle. Some people try putting whirligigs or moving decorations to scare them.
Get some Hinder like deer off. It works. You can spray it on the plants that you don't eat. It really keeps them away. You could spray plants around the garden and they might turn around and go some where else. I have had good luck with Hinder and it makes the plants grow too. It's some kind of urea.
sorry to say this but pee in your garden. the smell will help keep them away. Everytime it rains you will have to do this again. Read it it some book on natural ways to keep animals away.
www.okorder /... This is a garlic spray that you can put on your garden and the deer dont like the taste. Ive also seen it in a spicy spray too. And usually you can use it in your salads too. Good Luck!!
