Plants which deter deer

If you have room in a sunny spot, you can let bee balm plants spread for large splashes of color. Picking the flowers or deadheading them encourages a second round of blooms. To repel deer, use it as a border plant or in containers around your garden area.

Deer tend to steer clear of chives because of their strong odor and flavor. Chives are easy to grow and once they are established, they self-sow. In addition, chives boast pretty white or purple flowers in summer. To deter deer, you can plant chives throughout your landscaping and alongside your veggies. They also grow well in containers. Available in a wide variety of color, cosmos is an easy-maintenance flowering plant that deer dislike.

Cosmos tolerate a wide range of soil types and can handle dry conditions. Our only guaranteed no chomp here in hi pop deer area. It looks a lot like Impatient, which they love , won't touch it! If deer make it impossible to even bother gardening, use artificial plants - there are many to choose from. I have some that look like bushes, and a lot of colored artificial succulents - people actually thought they were real. My reasoning was that I'm just plain tired of weeding.

Those I mentioned are in front of our home, on sides of our brick pathway. I have seen deer eat ivy. A friend had deer eat all her flowers, so she stuck fake flowers in the ground.

Next day she noticed they even pulled them up! They must of discovered they were fake, and spit them out! An old woman from Eastern Europe gave me this tip. Since deer will avoid meat produce, smearing the leaves of plants with animal fat will keep them away. Now as to Deer Resistance, she would save" The pie pans Aluminum " ones the ones from say from store bought Apple, Pumpkin, or just plain go and buy some, and string a few around her Gardens, Yes gaudy looking BUT when they are rattling in the breeze or swinging the noise and flashing deter the deer, as well as " Liquid Fence"!

The Latter stinks at first then not so much. I go around my Property , and spray the Gardens as well. Also my rednose Pitty keeps them away. Good Planting All. My grandmother raised us with the notion that every creature has a right to food. Some days it was her turn to feed the wildlife found near her farm. We have a herd of eight deer that wander the neighborhood. They have done a wonderful job of cleaning up grass clippings, managing the berry patch, and keeping some other weeds under control.

During the winter they cleaned up the bird seed that fell out of the feeders. There is this plant with little purple-pink flowers that the deer seem to avoid even walking in. Some one said it is in the mint family and grows very well in shade. The food garden came with an electric fence. I'll see how things go with the deer this summer. I want to take the fence down. No such thing here on the east coast of Florida. I gave up gardening entirely. Why waste my money to feed the deer.

I might as well go buy sacks of kernel corn for them. The deer eat everything except my Primrose. We bought starter peppers that we thought were mild bell peppers. They weren't. We have Scandinavian roots and we can't tolerate too much heat in our peppers, but we tried.

These peppers grew really well and we tried to bake and stuff them, put them in soups, pair them with cheese The deer ate them! We laughed at the image. I have so many friends that deal with deer in their gardens. I will be sharing this with them. Fortunately, there was no further damage. How did he know?! But they have now developed a taste for geraniums, iris leaves, bee balm, and tomato plants that they used to leave alone! So far! And spraying deterrent but you do have to be diligent and stand out of the wind or your spouse will stay away, too!

It smells like Wintergreen gum. You can buy it online. It seriously works on my deer. I have been using a pepper spray that I mix myself — 1 gallon water, tablespoons Tabasco sauce, and a generous squirt of Dawn dish detergent. Mix all the ingredients and spray the plants. I also spray the ground in the garden and the surrounding grass in the yard. Additionally, I grate bars of Irish Spring soap and toss around the garden and the yard.

I spray every week and I replenish the Irish Spring every month or so. This has worked for me. I am using your method and the deer have stayed away, from the four new trees, for two days now.

You could try a fishing line fence first. They can only jump wide or tall, but not wide and tall. They love my okra, leaves and all. They also love my tomatoes, leaves and all. Maybe they are southern deer since they like their tomatoes green.

I have tried an electric fence, but they jump right over it. I also used Plantskydd deer repellent religiously, which worked great for a while, but then seemed to have less and less of an effect.

I may try the deer netting fence next year or just sit out by my garden in a lawn chair with a shotgun….

Does are the most tender for your freezer only in deer season. But with all this your neighbors will call the police for noise control. May God bless you and good luck with your deer. See directions above. Supposedly, that works and 2 fences will work.

The day I want to pick they ate last night. Ssooo frustrating. My white vinegar spray worked for a day. We have had good luck with 3 foot fence plus electric wires and then stringing white rope about 3 feet inside and parallel to such outer fence at about a 3 foot height.

Plus including plantings of sage, peppermint, garlic. Noticed after two weeks that bark was being stripped by deer on some of the trees. Drilled bars of Ivory soap and placed them in middle of trees. Never had a problem thereafter. I mix egg whites with water, in an old milk jug. I pour it around my garden. I recently moved into a very secluded area. I now have a 6 point buck that watches me and snorts at my granddaughter and me when we go outside.

Herbs like mint, rosemary, Russian sage and lavender are a good bet, as are peonies, boxwood, onion and garlic. Bitter Taste — Deer tend to avoid yarrow and most ferns, as well as bulbous flowers such as poppies, daffodils and snowdrops. These contain bitter-tasting alkaloids that are toxic to deer, but also poisonous to other animals. Thick Foliage — If a plant has thick, fibrous or leathery leaves, deer will generally avoid it unless they are starving. Peonies, pachysandra, irises and lavender are some lovely flowering plants with thick foliage that acts as a deer repellent.

To deter deer, plant globe thistle, barberry and acanthus in your vegetable or flower garden. Sharp Edges — Deer usually steer clear of grasses and sedges, which have sharp edges that cause irritation, and are also difficult to digest.