How do I keep the deer from eating all my plants?

My mother attaches little mini bags to the fruit trees.

She does the following:

1. Collect soap shards (I travel so keep and take all the mini soap bars)

2. Collect human hair (were from a small town, so she gets a big paper bag of hair from the salon)

3. cut up nylons, tie the ends

4. put in soap and hair

5. Tie them up and put a string on them to tie to tree

I'm sure you could modify and just spread it on the ground for flower beds

You can't. Buy plants they don't like To eat like wild flowers.

My deer are voracious and eat everything. I found they leave euriops, oleander and juniper alone. I recently read they don't like strong smelling plants. I planted rosemary by my lantana and trumpet vine and they've left them alone. I'm going to give jasmine a try and see how that goes.

Spray with Dawn.

Thanks everyone, I have tried the human hair but when it rains, the oils from the hair are washed away. I have a very small area for a rose bush and they constantly eat the roses and leaves. Don't know if I can spray Dawn on the bush without killing it. Joyce

Hang some aluminum pie plates in the garden...the noise will keep them away.

I have seen this remedy several places, but have not tried it yet. A bar of Irish Spring soap. Shave it into smaller pieces, and scatter it around on the ground, or put it in little net type bags and hang near or on your rose bush.

Cayenne pepper or hot sauce mixed with water in a spray bottle. Spray leaves, respray after extended periods of rain.

A 12 gauge might help..Gee did I just say that?..sorry all you animal lovers out there..Just kidding..but Venison is tasty

Take a household grater and whittle down some Irish spring soap into shavings. Sprinkle around plants

A PRODUCT CALLED DEER FENCE WORKS GREAT. SMELLS VERY BAD WHEN U SPRAY IT ON BUT THE SMELL GOES AWAY IN A DAY BUT THE DEER CAN STILL SMELL IT AND WILL STAY AWAY. NEEDS TO BE REAPPLIED AFTER A HEAVY RAIN

Thanks for all the ideas. I am now trying the Irish Spring Soap chips and human hair around my rosebush and I actually have 6 new buds and plan to cut them for inside the house after they open. At least the soap chips are good after a rain.

Deer do not like sage, plant some of that with your roses.