What is the best homemade deer repellent for gardens and flowers!

Marjie
by Marjie
  10 answers
  • Kfh24731652 Kfh24731652 on Jul 04, 2017

    Irish spring soap. take a bar and make into shavings. spread around garden and flowers. deer really hatem the smell

  • Lyn2398900 Lyn2398900 on Jul 04, 2017

    Irish Spring is it! It can be put in a mesh type bag and hung from their favorite

    shrubs too. No shaving, just the bar soap.

  • Colimbia1 Colimbia1 on Jul 04, 2017

    An 8 foot fence all around your garden. I don't mean to be "flip" but all the repellent recipes as well as commercial I have tried have never done very little or no good.

  • Kmdreamer Kmdreamer on Jul 04, 2017

    Believe it or not get a baby diaper from someone and put it all over the dpgarden the messier the better not the plastic only the inside

  • Terry Meek Terry Meek on Jul 04, 2017

    I would think that using a little cayenne pepper sprinkled around your gardens would run them off! Also, there are many herbs that don't smell very good to an animal so try several to see which one works best.

  • Tes Tes on Jul 04, 2017

    My mom used hair that her hairdresser would save when she swept up, to spread around her garden to ward off pests.

    Theresa

  • Joan Joan on Jul 04, 2017

    My farmer friend swears by 1/2c dawn dishwashing liquid, and 1/8 c cinnamon. Put in a spray bottle and douse the areas thoroughly.


  • Use a vegetable peeler on the bar of Irish Spring soap and scatter shavings around plants and bushes. There's a product called Bobbex that works really well if you have something you want to protect though!


    I read this from Gma Kirk: A farmer gave me a gross recipe for repellent...but it works. cup or two of urine, tablespoons of crushed garlic, and cayenne pepper, two eggs in a gallon jug, shake well, fill rest of the way with water. Cap and let age a week. Then you drizzle small stream around the perimeter of whatever you want to keep them from eating - works on rabbits too!