How do you keep deer out of the garden?

Tina
by Tina
I tried everything!

  6 answers
  • Cindy Cindy on May 16, 2018

    Hi Shedevils, Try putting down some shredded Irish Spring bar soap. You can shred them on a box grater or even in a food processor. Animals hate the smell and taste of the soap. Replenish after rain. I buy a big 12-pack every spring and shred them all at one time. I store it in a 5 gallon bucket with lid in my shed. It's the only thing that has ever worked for me. It does not affect your plants at all. Yay.

  • Cuky Cuky on May 16, 2018

    Use Irish Spring soap grind it and speed it around your garden, the fragrance bother them

  • Sandy West Sandy West on May 16, 2018

    Irish spring soap. I've had wonderful results with it

  • Sarah Sota Sarah Sota on May 17, 2018

    oryou could just put the deer in the freezer ;)

  • Teacup8885 Teacup8885 on May 17, 2018

    Dry blood


  • 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!