Is there any true way to keep the deer away from garden and flowers

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  • Suellen Hintz Suellen Hintz on Jan 28, 2018

    No, there's not, except for a very tall fence. The plants labeled as 'deer resistant' are less likely to be eaten but they'll still be tasted or grazed occasionally. There are some flowers they can't seem to resist..such as roses and tulips, I'm told. They've never sampled my irises. We're not fenced and just call our small yard 'The Salad Bar'.

  • Janet Vaughn Gilder Janet Vaughn Gilder on Jan 28, 2018

    Take hair cuttings from your local beautican and sprinkle around your garden. Deer smell the human smell and avoid the area. Hair clippings are free.

  • Barbara Barbara on Jan 28, 2018

    I have had pretty good luck with spraying Deer Fence. You must follow directions, and track your usage, as it is easy to forget when that next treatment is due. Since they walk right up the driveway, I also spray retaining walls to discourage them. Phase II is transitioning to plants they don't like, so you don't have to spray much.

  • You could get a motion-controlled sprinkler. Look for the one called The Scarecrow on Amazon. Best device ever!

  • Susan Whalen Susan Whalen on Jan 28, 2018

    Home Hardware sells an awful-smelling spray that is very good at keeping the deer from eating my Hyacinth and Tulips. It has garlic, rotted meat and other such delicacies. Just don't mix it with hot water; or spray upwind so it lands in your eyes and nose! You must reapply after rainfall. Good news is- it works! It is sold as a concentrate so you get years and years worth!

  • Mogie Mogie on Jan 28, 2018

    Get a dog.

  • Deer turn their noses up at fragrant plants with strong scents. Sages, ornamental salvias, and lavender, daffodils, garlic, annual vinca, marigolds, coneflowers


    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!