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How to Protect Shrubs from Deer
How to Protect Shrubs from Deer. Watching deer graze on your landscaped lawn may seem relaxing until they start nibbling on your manicured shrubs. Deer eat the outer, tender foliage of shrubs and plants, sometimes permanently damaging or deforming the delicate bushes. Deer can eat small, young shrubs right down to the ground. Protecting shrubs from...
Watching deer graze on your landscaped lawn may seem relaxing until they start nibbling on your manicured shrubs. Deer eat the outer, tender foliage of shrubs and plants, sometimes permanently damaging or deforming the delicate bushes. Deer can eat small, young shrubs right down to the ground. Protecting shrubs from deer involves repelling the animals by spraying the shrub or constructing a barrier so the deer cannot gain access to the shrubs.
Things You'll Need
Hammer
Metal or wooden stakes
Woven or chicken-wire fencing
Crimp and cut splicing tool
6 spoiled eggs
Bucket
3 gallons water
3 tbsp. Thriam
Pump sprayer
Fence
Hammer four 5-foot metal or wooden stakes around the shrub, keeping them 4 feet from the bush.
Start the woven or chicken-wire fence at the outside edge of one wooden or metal stake, bringing it around the outside edges of all the stakes.
Overlap the fence by 1/2 foot after circling the shrub. Cut the fence with a crimp and cut splicing tool.
Weave the two ends of the chicken or woven fence together so they interlock to form a circle.
Deer Repellent
Add six ground-up spoiled eggs to 3 gallons of water in a bucket. Mix in 3 tbsp. of 75 percent Thriam.
Pour the mixture into a pump sprayer.
Spray the entire shrub with the mixture. Aim the nozzle towards the underneath area of the foliage and spray.
Repeat the spraying process after each heavy rainfall.
Tips & Warnings
Use longer stakes for fences taller than 5 feet. For a group of shrubs in the same area, place the fence around the entire group instead of individually.
