How can I make a natural deer repellent?
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Based on experience, the only deer-proof solution that really works with lasting power is to build a fence higher,or, put the plants higher than they can jump. Don't waste your money and time with any other 'deterrents'.
Deer have an extraordinary ability to know where food is, and to get at it.
A large dog can help.
My cousin uses a vegetable peeler on a bar of Irish Spring soap and scatters the shavings around her plants. There's also a product called Bobbex that works really well if you have something that is very precious to you.
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
My mom is a hairdresser, so she would bring hair home to put around the garden. Strange but true. Apparently it's the scent.
Liquid fence recipe.... https://www.theprairiehomestead.com/2015/06/homemade-liquid-fence-recipe.html
Then you can also buy predator urine to keep them off your property, simple dab it on branches and tree trunks on your yard perimeter. Cougar is top predator.... https://www.amazon.com/Predator-Pee-100-Mountain-Urine/dp/B01AH4RV32/ref=asc_df_B01AH4RV32/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=241960413056&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=14037798014400189756&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9033057&hvtargid=aud-643191255296:pla-520900012540&psc=1
You will have to replace this periodically after rains.
Urine works great.
Human hair, you can pick it up at barber shops & hair salons.
Irish Spring shred up will also work.
It's the scent that keeps them away.
Thanks everyone