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How to Deter Deer from your Yard
How to Deter Deer from your Yard. White-tailed deer are peaceful, beautiful animals. However, as a seasoned gardener I know how much they can damage landscape. Hungry deer can devour gardens and shrubbery without remorse. There are no 100% foolproof ways to keep deer away from your plants, but there are several methods that will discourage their...
White-tailed deer are peaceful, beautiful animals. However, as a seasoned gardener I know how much they can damage landscape. Hungry deer can devour gardens and shrubbery without remorse. There are no 100% foolproof ways to keep deer away from your plants, but there are several methods that will discourage their efforts.
One important thing to remember is that if deer are hungry enough, they will eat almost anything. However,
choosing plants the deer don't have much of an appetite for is a great way to encourage deer to dine elsewhere.
Plants white-tailed deer tend to avoid include: daffodils, ornamental grasses, herbs, bee balm, Russian sage, barberry, cleome, coneflower, Yarrow, peony, oriental poppy, lungwort, lamb's ear, foxglove, forget-me-not, yucca, speedwell, columbine, butterfly weed, lily of the valley, bleeding heart, wood fern, globe thistle, joe-pye weed, baby's breath, lenten rose.
Deer do not like the feel of wire under their feet. Place chicken wire on the ground around all gardens and shrubbery. Instead of walking on the uncomfortable wire, they will turn and walk away.
The feel of something touching their legs is one big pet peeve of white-tailed deer. String a piece of thin wire or sturdy fishing line at a height of 8 to 10 inches. Deer will generally not walk near the wire or fishing line because it annoys their legs.
The smell of deer predators will make them turn and high tail it out of your yard. Purchase the urine of fox or coyote and deposit drops of the predator urine in key spots around plants. One sniff and the deer will turn and run, feeling they are in danger of encountering an unfavorable predator.
