How to stop the deer from eating the tulips when they start coming up?

Hi Janet, Here's a video that may help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgSRofgZTBY

You can get a motion sensor sprinkler at Lowe's.

Good luck!

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A fence, you can’t beat Mother Nature

Go to a barber/hairdresser and request the hair clippings and spread around your beds. (smells like humans). Just don't be surprized when the birds steal them for their nests. also hang medal disposable pie plates that are shiny that might scare them off.

Hi, Janet,

You can douse your tulips in Liquid Fence Concentrate, spraying all surfaces. It smells like garlic and rotten eggs (noticeable to humans for first several hours, then only noticeable to deer and rabbits). As the tulips continue to grow, you must respray, or you will find deer damage.

In Yellowstone, and in certain areas of Maine, plants damaged by Elk, Deer, Moose are grown in tall, reinforced wire cages which completely enclose the plants, including the bulbs.

In some areas, dipping the bulbs in Thiram, and spreading bone meal around the planting area will deter deer, if only temporarily.

Some have had success with water sprays, while others have not. Dogs can be very effective, if sufficiently large and aggressive.

Unfortunately, the people who intentionally feed deer and birds have compounded the problem, as deer will now literally walk towards humans, lookinh for a hand out.

Deer are quite capable of jumping an 8' fence... some people erect 2 fences, 4' apart, as deer have poor depth perception.

After having lost hundreds of very costly tulips, many in S.W. PA have switched to Hyacinths, Muscari, Daffodils, Euphorbia.

I agree on hair cuttings too but the soap

brand “Irish Spring”works well too. Deer

do not like the smell at all ,good luck!

Plant Daffodils instead--there are over 500 varieties and deer will not eat them and they come back each year ( and multiply ) tulips come back once ( if you are lucky )

Planting strongly scented herbs, prickly plants and even furry varieties of plant can repel deer.

Preventing deer from eating tulips may be as simple as visiting the spice cupboard. Red pepper flakes, pungent spices, hot sauce, mothballs, garlic and onions, and other intensely flavored or scented items can confuse and hold off the grazing animals.