Gardeners, what do you do to keep deer from eating

[Burma Jones]

your tulips without resorting to fences or poisons?

[TheMightyFavog]

1. WWII era 30.06 M1 Garand.

No mor deer problem, plus you get food on the table! :P

[Burma Jones]

2. Yummy, and Atkins Friendly

Hmmmmmmmmm

[Mass_Liberal]

18. heheheh

n/t

[TNDemo]

3. The 5 method.

Get five eggs. Mix them 5 gallons of water. Add 5 ounces of hot sauce. Let them sit for five days in the garage. Then pour around the perimeter of the garden. Of course you will need a clothespin for your nose while near the garden but the deer should leave it alone.

[pilsengirl]

4. Plant something else

and check the Master Gardener Program in your state. In Illinois go to http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/perennials/deer.html

[Champion Jack]

5. Go to your local barbershop and get the hair clippings

spread it around the outside of your garden.
Another thing I have heard of is sprinklers hooked to an infrared perimeter system. Deer trip ir beam, sprinkler goes off, deer leaves.

[Widgetsfriend]

6. I've had some luck putting mothballs around the garden.

We've got a lot of deer around here and they were working on some new fruit trees I planted. I'd heard about mothballs so I gave it a try. So far, so good. They last longer than I had anticipated, so that's good. I put them down in November and they're still there. Good luck. Love to look at the deer; hate the damage they can do.

[Burma Jones]

15. I'll do it

[BR_Parkway]

7. Pee around the edges

they don't like the scent.

They also sell mountain lion pee for the same purpose

[Habibi]

9. Yup

there's a guy here in Upstate NY who sells a repellant made from, I believe, wolf urine. I'm going to try it this spring if we get another skunk infestation.

(I'd pee around the perimeter myself but my aim's not so good, being a girl and all.)

[BR_Parkway]

16. We are planting a vineyard and have to scare off the deer

My brother suggested an electric fence, my partner told me about peeing around the edges - Something tells me to pick one OR the other :-)

[Burma Jones]

13. I'll try that first since I have plenty of pee

I think I'll go buy some too

[mobuto]

8. Claymores

They also keep away neighborhood delinquents, trespassers, and the US Postal Service.

[Habibi]

10. Come now

why would you want to keep the postal carriers away? They deliver the stuff you just ordered online!

I <heart> my postal carrier. :loveya:

[mobuto]

12. Really?

All they ever send me are library notices, uninteresting catalogues and utility bills.

How do I order stuff off the internet? Do I have to pay for that?

[Burma Jones]

14. UPS Delivers almost everything I order online

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

11. Plant soybeans in a row a little way from your garden

the deer will stick to the soybeans. At least that is what they did with us.

[Raven]

17. Pee is very good.

And if your drink heavily before you pee, that's even better (just kidding!). The one thing that I have learned after posting here about feeding deer is: don't feed them. Try the pee, really!

[HEyHEY]

19. Hire a freeper to blow it away

[Snow]

20. My uncle in Indiana was on the board of the local zoo...

he'd go get a few buckets of tiger poop & spread it around the borders of his garden. That worked quite well...

[Burma Jones]

21. I'll get some from my tiger's litter box - Thanks

[Snow]

23. Have your tiger pee in a cup....

then sprinkle that around. Should work....

[Loonman]

22. Browning 9mm

n/t

[Burma Jones]

27. Actually, they get close enough for a Baretta 9mm (n/t)

[4morewars]

24. We have a ...

Jack Russel Terrier !!!! Fearless, loyal, brave, and true, I just can't say the word squirrel in the house !!!!
Terrier, from the middle english terror.

[slackmaster]

25. Pet tiger in the back yard

He's not a very big tiger but he gets the job done.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

26. What you need is lion poo

Check with your local zoo.