by Myrna Nuss
Asked on Apr 5, 2018
What is the absolutely easiest way to deer proof my garden?
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The deer eat everything, either as it comes up or when its mature. I don't want to fence the whole thing, because the fence would need to be 8 feet tall to keep them out, and it would be unattractive and expensive.
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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!