Dang Deer!! :D

[Royal]

Well this is great. We have always had problems getting plants to grow up here because of the deer and rabbits. We give them corn but they still seem to need desert.

My mother gave us some Hosta's a few weeks back and we planted them, by we I mean I planted them on the border between the lawn and woods. The next weekend we came up and all the plants were fine. We finally found something the deer did not like.

Yesterday I went over to my mothers and got another eight plants and I brought them up. Mary is coming up tonight but I wanted to get a couple ceiling fans in the guest bedrooms. I got here and looked at the Hosta's. They were gone! I went out and they had been eaten off at the ground level. I look up and not 15 ft away was a deer watching, with a look like he was saying, "Plant more stupid"

I threw out a couple hands full of corn and headed for the garage to get the VERY EXPENSIVE deer repellent. The same stuff I put on the eaten plants not 5 days before. I went out and sprayed them and looked up and the dang deer was not 10 ft from me watching.

I hauled the plants I had just brought up to the back and dumped them on the lawn. I would plant them later when it was cooler.


She finally left and I went for a scooter ride. I rode over to Mike Q's house, about 20 miles away and he was not up yet.

I then took a leisurely ride home and looked out back. The dang deer was standing there eating my new, unplanned plants!! I yelled at her and she trotted off a bit and looked at me as if she thought I was nuts.

I had to haul all the plants up on my deck because as of yet, the critters do not come on the deck, at least the deer and rabbits don't.

I went out again for a while and when I came back the dang deer was eating all my sunflower seed out of my bird feeder! Just standing there and tipping it and scarfing down my expensive seed. I had to shoo her off and since it was almost dark, I put it on the deck too!

This morning I planted all the Hosta's and am headed for Houghton Lake to get another fan and I am gonna see if I can locate somewhere to buy an electric fence charger.

I feel as if I am trying to outsmart a dang squirrel.

I checked out the flycatcher nest and it seems they are not there any more. The chick is gone as are all the eggs. Must have been a nest robber around

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

eating the flowers was to put some clear fishing line around the flowers. For some reason, when the deer encounter the clear fishing line, it spooks them and they will leave the flowers and other plants alone. While deer are fun to watch, they can be very destructive. Please have a great day! Kelley (Texas)

 

[Micheal_R]

"Course, we have the russells and they do a pretty good job of chasing the deer off. However, in your case, I do not know......maybe a pellet gun?

good luck

All the best

M

 

[jim central mo]

growing up in the ozark mountains having a deer in your yard was like having food delivered.fortunately times are better and most folks can appreciate deer for their beauty and not just how pretty they'd look in the skillet.i have heard that irish spring soap hung in your garden will repell deer but it sounds like this one has lost it's fear of you and anything short of re-instilling that fear probably wont work.i'd break out the red ryder and sting her a few times. if that doesn't work,hey,they're quite tasty ya know.

 

[Ludy]

Take your banjo out on the deck and
play it three days in a row.Then leave
it out there and the deer will not come
back.Let me know how it works out.

 

[david(tx)]

it's kind of a danged if you do,danged if you don't situation,you like looking at the deer but the corn is the big draw for them, the hostas are just dessert.

i thought those hostas were poisonous,maybe it was one of the shows on hgtv i saw,probably not.do they die back in the winter time or are they green all year round.

maybe you could just put out corn in the winter when food is more scarce and don't feed them in the summer.

 

[Royal]

I like seeing them but I don't like the suckers eating all my flowers. I put up a hot wire today but I am not sure it is working right. I grabbed it and it knocked me on my ass once but the light is not blinking. I think with the sand we have here a ground might be a problem

 

[Wayne in BC]

you need to put your rubber boots on to be grabbing that wire
Those sharp little hooves ground them good even on sand!
Too bad we could not hook up, i think the dialup is bad news for Skype. <a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008_ZNxdm799YYCA' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/3/3_8_14.gif' alt='Computer Smash' border=0></a>

 

[Royal]

that gal took off like she was on fire I have not touched that thing in years but had it handy. Mary is not up here yet, in fact she is on the way and she just called and said she was stuck in traffic. Don't you know that by the time she gets here it will be my fault

Mamma deer was out there so I figured I would try Ludy's cure. She listened for a few minutes but then took off.

 

[Wayne in BC]

Did she have her tail "tucked" when she left? <a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008_ZNxdm799YYCA' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/15_1_63.gif' alt='Peeking Over Fence' border=0></a>

 

[Royal]

n/t

 

[Micheal_R]

take a 4 or 5 foot piece of copper pipe. Solder a wire to it [I uses a 14 guage wire] and pound that baby into the ground. Then attach the wire ti the negative on the fencer. THat will give a decent ground in pretty much all types of weather.

The other option is the buy one of those ground plate [they are 18 by 18 inches I think] and dig a hole where you can lay that flat. Attach your ground wire and then cover it.

presto. Flat on your kiester ground.

all the best

M

 

[butch...ar]

take 3 large eggs and stir them up real good and add a gallon of water---stir this good together and put in a garden sprayer.....spray everything u do not want the deer to touch

this is a poor boy's trick and it will work, but the rain dilutes it so u have to do it several times

i do it once a week just for safe keeping, last year they would walk thru my garden, smell around a little and goto the neighbors gardens

 

[Royal]

my problem is the fact that even though I spray, with some expensive crap, we are only up here every couple weeks and nothing lasts. The deer just wait until the stink goes away and then dine. Same results.

Once I move up here it might be different but for now the electric fence might work. I will keep the egg trick in mind though

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

The deer can not see it and when they come in contact with the clear fishing line they stop dead in their tracks...it spooks them and they stay away from the flowers or shrubs where the clear fishing line is located. Please have a great day! Kelley (Texas)