How to stop deer from eating your flowers?
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Put irish spring soap around them
I love using Liquid Fence spray. I spray my rose bushes and any of the flowers I don't want deer eating. It works great! Spray every other night and it should work! Just beware it stinks though! You can buy it at Home Depot!
I did the above too. Buy BARS of Irish Spring soap (I am sure no one buys it to use on themselves!). I made little pouches out of nylon net, but you could just tie each bar in a big square of nylon net. Hang the net in the 4 corners (or closer together if you have a big area) of the space you are trying to protect. Deer hate the scent. When you smell it you will see why.
I have also had AMAZING results with BAYER (like the aspirin) brand Rose systemic food and fertilizer. It comes in a big BLUE plastic jug. It also smells horrible. I use it on all my plants, not just roses. As long as you can SEE the granules on the ground the deer will stay away from your plants. I don't know if it is the smell, or it makes the plants taste bad, but it works - and it is a good fertilizer too!
You can also try using hair clippings from a Barber shop. They're supposed to have a more "human" smell than from a hair salon.
Plant deer resistant items in the area.
Irish Spring shredded and scattered about.
Scatter human hair, you can get at a hair salon.
Purchase deer repellent and spray on a non-windy day because it stinks.
Buy a solar motion light that way you won’t need any wiring and then also get a battery operated transistor radio and put it on all night talk show goodbye dear