I make a repellent that works like a charm for deer and rabbits. Boil onions, garlic and hot peppers (or just add hot pepper powder). Cool and let sit overnight. Strain, then mix a 1:4 ratio in a garden sprayer. One taste and they stay away. I had some carnations they ate the tops of. I sprayed this once and they never touched the plants again. I guess a mouthful of this and they learned a lesson! You may have to reapply after rain, but I didn't.
Thank you so much for this most helpful video! Thank you for taking the time to make the name tags and the photos of the plants!! This is probably the best deer resistant plants video on UA-cam and I so appreciate it!
I am so glad i found your channel! Wish i had seen it 4 years ago when i moved out to Winnebago County, but maybe now I can try to round out my garden through your suggestions. You're the first landscaper to live in my zone and one of the things that I not only enjoy, but find very helpful is that your choices span many zones, where other videos might be more targeted for their specific area, often not including 5 at all. Your extensive knowledge and your labeling aystem are so helpful and your enthusiasm is contagious!! I cant wait until it warms up and I can get out there with my new power tools to add curb appeal to my home this summer. Applying your tips will definitely bring my garden, and my property, up a notch!! THANK YOU!! 🥀💐🌼🌻🌹🌸🌷
I've tried a lot of things to keep deer away. Fishing line works sorta, you have to use 100lb test and I've had them break that too. Best I've used so far is called Deer Out - from the web only, not sold in stores, it is a concentrate that you mix up to spray. It has the raw eggs in it and it does work. It also has mint and is somewhat rain resistant for light rain, but I spray frequently and it does keep the deer away - they avoid my yard. The deer are a big problem. I fenced in my back yard and also have a fence around my vegetable garden. Good video, very helpful!
I live in Montana in the mountains, so yes, I have a lot of deer. I rely on Russian Sage, Lavender, Potentilla, Lambs ears, Salvia, Artimesia, Dusty Miller and Barberry.
Michelle, I have been planning new landscaping around my house (zone 4 in WI) and your videos have been very informative and helpful! I agree with the comment below, the plant names and zones are a big help! Thank you for your videos! :)
Thanks, Michelle, for a very helpful video. I’m looking forward to your video on groundhogs! I’d never even seen one in my area before and suddenly last year I have them devastating my veg. I used tulle to try and keep them out of my raised beds, but it was too little too late. Unfortunately my dogs are pretty old and apparently have become tolerant to critters in their yard.
So helpful ! I love that you put all of the categories in a slide show ! Please do one for squirrels, rabbits, chipmunks.. if you know of any remedies that work ! Ty!!
Thanks for this video. Love your delivery. Deer just come in and eat everything. Like to see them but would like a veg garden. Will try the tips. Thanks
I have a friend who used motion sensing water sprinklers. It was used to scare the deer. It also scared me when I forgot those sprinklers were on and would drench me!
I’ve used those for years. They are pretty expensive and don’t last long, but I’d you have them in the right place they seem to work. I daisy chain 4-6 of them (depending on how many are working) in an arc around my front yard. Hostas are my favorite plant so I keep trying. I fought voles for years and just when I got them under control the deer appear. Sigh…
I’m Soooo happy you created this list; I recently moved to middle Tennessee and living by the lake, we are blessed with beautiful wildlife, especially deer. While i love them I also love plants and being new to this part of the country, this comprehensive list is just what I’ve been looking for.
Thank you! Lots of ideas. We have lived in our house for 35 years and this is the first time we have had deer! They come right up to our door and help themselves. We were told they wouldn't eat arbs so we bought 20 and 2 are chewed down by the little rascals! Husband is waiting for deer season, lol!
We have a ranch located right on the elk and deer migration from the valley below to the high mountain meadows just above us. The only way we found to protect our veggie garden was to erect an eight foot fence! So far, the deer and elk look longingly at my garden buffet, and move on.
Hi. Your videos are helpful. Thank you. We use grated Irish Spring soap in a 2"( out from the stem) ring around our hostas before the leaves bud,and it has worked for bunnies ✓ It did munch on the young lilac bark,so put a 4' tall mesh ring this winter,which worked. Have lots of the resistant perennials already & success !! 🌈
Ha Ha. Heading home from 3 months in FL next week. I've got a bet with my husband how much of my Red Twig Dogwood bushes have been eaten down. They seem to love this bush.
New subscriber here! This is great information and I love your channel. I don't have a deer problem, but my parents do. They have started chomping on their hydrangeas and it's heart breaking! It's a challenge that I hope to never have!
Tip: if you are transporting deer repellent spray in your car, put it in a sealed container in case it tips over. I manage some landscape areas at our church and took some deer repellent to the church. It tipped over as I was driving to the church and and it leaked out through the spray hose onto the floor. It got into the insulation under the floor. $1800 and a new floor later, I would only transport it now in a sealed 5 gal bucket.
I've been gradually replacing plants like hostas and daylilies with many of the plants you listed. Definitely, is working. I've tried many deer repellents and they help somewhat but the only thing that has really worked is deer netting.
Happy spring, Michelle. We’re sitting here drinking our coffee and just saw a big doe up on the hill. The dogs keep them scattered for the most part here. I heard that putting up caution tape keeps them away. Kinda doubt it but it is a cheap try. Great information.
Only the baby deer munch a little as I start spraying in February. I spray every 2 weeks religiously and after a rain. Good success with that. Milorganite also helps. Many people don’t like to use it though.
I put a bar of Irish Spring inside a nylon and tied it to the euymonomus plant. I have many euymonomus plants and the deer feasted on every plant even though Irish Spring soap was attached. I am now going to dig them up and put them in planters behind my lawn furniture so the deer hopefully can not reach them. I noticed that my pachysandra also has eaten areas. Not sure it that is rabbits or deer since we have plenty of both.
Deer ate my coral bells and last summer my green pepper plants. I did not pull either of them up and guess what? They both grew back and I had more peppers. I've tried to add herbs within my garden that they don't like. In that area. It has worked so far.
I go to dollar tree and get cheap vicks rub($1.25), I put it on cotton balls and tuck in the planters. I smear it around the rim of the planters.. I do this every 10 days. The main place i put it is under my hostas... It is nothing worse than them eating then to the ground. I am now in the process of making a list of things for next year that deer don't like.
I have a gang of deer in my gardens every year and they pass through day and night, a few more shrubs they don’t like are Spirea, Rhododendrons, Purple Ninebarks (they eat a few leaves), & Wild Roses. Perennials: Butterfly Weed, Monkshood, Spiderwort and Crocosmia. Last year I tried spraying a half & half mixture of concentrated beef bouillon + water and it was pretty effective. I think because it smells like an animal. It’s cheap to try, can buy tetra paks at Dollar Store.
I have been gardening for most of my 53 years and as an adult my family moved often for hubs military career. Everywhere we lived had deer lol. Even where I grew up had deer. Now we are settled in zone 8a NC near Pinehurst. And we have tons of deer 😳. After 3 years we decided to put up deer netting for the backyard. Our front yard is exposed to deer but I have the following plants. A variety of salvias like Blue and Pink marvel, catnip, foxglove, Russian sage, 3 types of hyssops, creeping thyme, wooly thyme, daffodils, hyacinths, sweet alyssum, bearded irises and a variety of shrubs that are poky or juniper related. It’s been a learning curve. And they still walk through our garden beds which is destructive in itself. Thanks for the lists. I am trying Monkshood this season to see if I can grow it in part shade since it’s hardy to zone 7 Happy Planting
I used Irish spring for couple of years and that seemed to work. I left the case on, drilled a hole in the middle, put a string through the hole and hang it close to the garden. I also just laid a soap bar right in my garden, with the case , and that seemed to work too. The one challenge that I encountered is that my neighbor’s dog also likes to take the soap and eat it. So far he is doing fine. I also noticed that cats like to come to lick on the broken soap chips that the dog left on the ground. Again, looked like the cats are doing fine as well. I have been collecting metal baskets to house the soap so hopefully that will keep the animals from stealing the soap 😊.
Hi Michelle, I have to say I love your videos! I have deer and I’m saving this video. I did buy a product that like invisible fencing where the deer get a VERY mild shock and it works great. But I love your lists of plant and trees! Oh also, I have seen animal urine sold at hunting stores and Fleet Farm. I’d love to know if they really work, hummm! I secretly hate deer and love them in my fridge hahahaa, evil laugh! I know I’m mean. But they break my heart 😢
Believe it or not-I went out yesterday to check my hellebores and found that they’ve been eating on them!!! Also, last year they ate my coral bells down to the roots!
I have to say I am working on this dear dilemma we have tried different things over the years however, this year we are trying three different methods at one time. I will be sure to let you know how the deer and I make out.😂 thank you for your video. I like your honesty.
I use trip wire alarms and fishing string and that has works perfectly. I have 10acs and this has kept them at bay y at the very rear of my property. Fortunately they have never tasted any of my plants but j have been proactive since day 1. I do use deer off and plant 90% deer resistant plants. I have no live for those little drvils.
I bought solar, motion activated, flashing lights off of Amazon a year ago after my neighbor told me that it was deer jumping my fence to visit my buffet. They chewed the entire side of a viburnum shrub. They haven’t returned. Bunnies are a big problem for me. I have to cage any shrub I don’t want chewed to the ground during the winter!
I tried the Irish Spring. I grated the bar & spread it around & it worked for awhile. I didn’t reapply & my deer started munching on plants again. I’m going to try it again
Yes please talk about groundhogs. Need help with that giant pain in my…..! Can not shot it, can not trap it. Hoping it will eat one on the poison plants I have in the garden in stead of my camellias.
The best deer repellent for me has been my cavoodle, for some reason her lil barking keeps them away, I leave the window open and she chases them away. It’s been 16 months here in PA and so far no deer eating here.
I've used grated Irish Spring and cinnamon. So far they have worked. We have 13 acres of timber right behind our house so they might just have plenty to eat. We also take the windfall apples out in the timber for them to enjoy.
What I use to keep the deer from eating my plants especially my hostas is to mix raw eggs, milk, water, cayenne pepper and some Louisiana hot sauce. I don't use a sprayer because the nozzle gets clogged. I use a cheap Dollar Store paint brush and fling the mix onto the plants. Yes it smells, so you'll want to do the mixing in your garage or shed. It seems to work.
Very helpful video! New subscriber! I have a privacy fence around my backyard, so I don’t worry about that part, but I want to propagate some plants and I need to know what I can put in the front. Thanks!!
Regarding dear repellent: Tried human hair (nothing) , fabric softener, dryer sheets, aluminum pie pans no help. Had to put wildlife mesh (fishing line concept without the danger) held up with u- posts because they nearly destroyed my lilac. I use Branded “DEAR B GONE” on my hostas and day lilies and it smells of clove. But it’s a pain because it washes off so not foolproof . Cayenne and cinnamon, doesn’t stay , discolored the plant , have to put on when damp. I never tried Irish spring because I. was afraid hurting plants. “Lilly of the valley terrible unless you place edging so can’t vine -out.
My challenge is raccoons - as soon as I plant something new, by the next morning the raccoons will have dug it up. I've started sprinkling the area around the new plant with cayenne pepper and that seems to keep them away.
Deer will eat butterfly bushes, but not down to the ground. Deer wiil eat Holly, but only in the winter when they are very hungry. Deer will NEVER eat barberry. Fawns will try it once and spit it out. Barberry has a yellow sap in the limbs that must taste horrendous. Deer generally don't eat summer sweet. I've had deer eat some of the flowers you stated were safe, but the names escapes me. Spiderwort was one. Deer will eat Junipers if they are starving. It must be like eating razor blades. Electric fences work well, but are ugly. Fawns will sometimes run through them, but learn quickly.
Deer never eat Spice bush a beautiful shrub with small yellow flowers in springtime before leaf out, red berries in fall, and leaves that smell like lemony-gingerbread. Male and female flowers on separate plants. zones 4 - 9
I’ve crossing my fingers. We live on 80 acres with no fence on all but about 3 acres. Right now about 6:30am 2-5 deer walk along the fence to get to the cattle salt blocks. They can have all they want in the field including the round hay bales. But please stay out of my yard or just pass thru.
@@gardeningTLC I love to watch them. However, I made a list and am checking it twice. Gonna plant them on a hillside nice. Non-deer food are coming to town!
I make a repellent that works like a charm for deer and rabbits. Boil onions, garlic and hot peppers (or just add hot pepper powder). Cool and let sit overnight. Strain, then mix a 1:4 ratio in a garden sprayer. One taste and they stay away. I had some carnations they ate the tops of. I sprayed this once and they never touched the plants again. I guess a mouthful of this and they learned a lesson! You may have to reapply after rain, but I didn't.
Oh I'm going to try that...I love natural solutions
Thank you so much for this most helpful video! Thank you for taking the time to make the name tags and the photos of the plants!! This is probably the best deer resistant plants video on UA-cam and I so appreciate it!
I watched 10 doe stroll through my yard this afternoon, shopping. As usual, your topic timing is perfect!
I am so glad i found your channel! Wish i had seen it 4 years ago when i moved out to Winnebago County, but maybe now I can try to round out my garden through your suggestions. You're the first landscaper to live in my zone and one of the things that I not only enjoy, but find very helpful is that your choices span many zones, where other videos might be more targeted for their specific area, often not including 5 at all.
Your extensive knowledge and your labeling aystem are so helpful and your enthusiasm is contagious!! I cant wait until it warms up and I can get out there with my new power tools to add curb appeal to my home this summer. Applying your tips will definitely bring my garden, and my property, up a notch!! THANK YOU!!
🥀💐🌼🌻🌹🌸🌷
I did T-post and fishing line, it worked great.
That is awesome!
I've tried a lot of things to keep deer away. Fishing line works sorta, you have to use 100lb test and I've had them break that too. Best I've used so far is called Deer Out - from the web only, not sold in stores, it is a concentrate that you mix up to spray. It has the raw eggs in it and it does work. It also has mint and is somewhat rain resistant for light rain, but I spray frequently and it does keep the deer away - they avoid my yard. The deer are a big problem. I fenced in my back yard and also have a fence around my vegetable garden. Good video, very helpful!
Deer Out works. I alternate with Bobbex. Bobbex lasts a little longer. But Michelle is right, it does get expensive!
I live in Montana in the mountains, so yes, I have a lot of deer. I rely on Russian Sage, Lavender, Potentilla, Lambs ears, Salvia, Artimesia, Dusty Miller and Barberry.
Michelle, thank you- very helpful; can't wait for the bunny and squirrel info
You are so welcome!
I had 42 of those flower chomping marauders in my front yard. Ugh, they’re lucky they’re cute. This video is priceless. Thanks!
Oh wow! 42!!! OMG
Looking forward to the rabbit video! Those little buggers are abundant in my garden.
Hey Melissa ❤❤❤, good day to you and also a wonderful weekend 💐🍀😇. How are you doing today ?
Michelle, I have been planning new landscaping around my house (zone 4 in WI) and your videos have been very informative and helpful! I agree with the comment below, the plant names and zones are a big help! Thank you for your videos! :)
Thanks, Michelle, for a very helpful video. I’m looking forward to your video on groundhogs! I’d never even seen one in my area before and suddenly last year I have them devastating my veg. I used tulle to try and keep them out of my raised beds, but it was too little too late. Unfortunately my dogs are pretty old and apparently have become tolerant to critters in their yard.
So helpful ! I love that you put all of the categories in a slide show ! Please do one for squirrels, rabbits, chipmunks.. if you know of any remedies that work ! Ty!!
Thanks for this video. Love your delivery. Deer just come in and eat everything. Like to see them but would like a veg garden. Will try the tips. Thanks
Thank you, nice informative video. Will you be posting any of plants that gophers don’t like?
I have a friend who used motion sensing water sprinklers. It was used to scare the deer. It also scared me when I forgot those sprinklers were on and would drench me!
Ha
I’ve used those for years. They are pretty expensive and don’t last long, but I’d you have them in the right place they seem to work. I daisy chain 4-6 of them (depending on how many are working) in an arc around my front yard. Hostas are my favorite plant so I keep trying. I fought voles for years and just when I got them under control the deer appear. Sigh…
I’m Soooo happy you created this list; I recently moved to middle Tennessee and living by the lake, we are blessed with beautiful wildlife, especially deer. While i love them I also love plants and being new to this part of the country, this comprehensive list is just what I’ve been looking for.
Thank you! Lots of ideas. We have lived in our house for 35 years and this is the first time we have had deer! They come right up to our door and help themselves. We were told they wouldn't eat arbs so we bought 20 and 2 are chewed down by the little rascals! Husband is waiting for deer season, lol!
They eat Arbs in my area too.
We have a ranch located right on the elk and deer migration from the valley below to the high mountain meadows just above us. The only way we found to protect our veggie garden was to erect an eight foot fence! So far, the deer and elk look longingly at my garden buffet, and move on.
Wow...now that is drastic. But fences if high enough or doubled work.....
Hi. Your videos are helpful. Thank you. We use grated Irish Spring soap in a 2"( out from the stem) ring around our hostas before the leaves bud,and it has worked for bunnies ✓ It did munch on the young lilac bark,so put a 4' tall mesh ring this winter,which worked. Have lots of the resistant perennials already & success !! 🌈
Ha Ha. Heading home from 3 months in FL next week. I've got a bet with my husband how much of my Red Twig Dogwood bushes have been eaten down. They seem to love this bush.
New subscriber here! This is great information and I love your channel. I don't have a deer problem, but my parents do. They have started chomping on their hydrangeas and it's heart breaking! It's a challenge that I hope to never have!
Welcome!
Tip: if you are transporting deer repellent spray in your car, put it in a sealed container in case it tips over. I manage some landscape areas at our church and took some deer repellent to the church. It tipped over as I was driving to the church and and it leaked out through the spray hose onto the floor. It got into the insulation under the floor. $1800 and a new floor later, I would only transport it now in a sealed 5 gal bucket.
Wow......good advice
I've been gradually replacing plants like hostas and daylilies with many of the plants you listed. Definitely, is working. I've tried many deer repellents and they help somewhat but the only thing that has really worked is deer netting.
Happy spring, Michelle. We’re sitting here drinking our coffee and just saw a big doe up on the hill. The dogs keep them scattered for the most part here. I heard that putting up caution tape keeps them away. Kinda doubt it but it is a cheap try. Great information.
I have used shredded Irish Spring around my plants and it has worked for many years. Need to reapply every month to two months.
Great video Michelle! Thank you for sharing your expertise. 😊 Be blessed! ❤
You are so welcome!
Only the baby deer munch a little as I start spraying in February. I spray every 2 weeks religiously and after a rain. Good success with that. Milorganite also helps. Many people don’t like to use it though.
I put a bar of Irish Spring inside a nylon and tied it to the euymonomus plant. I have many euymonomus plants and the deer feasted on every plant even though Irish Spring soap was attached. I am now going to dig them up and put them in planters behind my lawn furniture so the deer hopefully can not reach them. I noticed that my pachysandra also has eaten areas. Not sure it that is rabbits or deer since we have plenty of both.
Deer ate my coral bells and last summer my green pepper plants. I did not pull either of them up and guess what? They both grew back and I had more peppers. I've tried to add herbs within my garden that they don't like. In that area. It has worked so far.
Thanks for your help resisting deer pressure. Have used shavings of Irish spring and was helpful, but they eat my rhodies
and hellebore
Thanks for all the good ideas!
You are so welcome!
I go to dollar tree and get cheap vicks rub($1.25), I put it on cotton balls and tuck in the planters. I smear it around the rim of the planters.. I do this every 10 days. The main place i put it is under my hostas... It is nothing worse than them eating then to the ground. I am now in the process of making a list of things for next year that deer don't like.
I have a gang of deer in my gardens every year and they pass through day and night, a few more shrubs they don’t like are Spirea, Rhododendrons, Purple Ninebarks (they eat a few leaves), & Wild Roses. Perennials: Butterfly Weed, Monkshood, Spiderwort and Crocosmia.
Last year I tried spraying a half & half mixture of concentrated beef bouillon + water and it was pretty effective. I think because it smells like an animal. It’s cheap to try, can buy tetra paks at Dollar Store.
Hmmmmm. Worth trying
I have been gardening for most of my 53 years and as an adult my family moved often for hubs military career. Everywhere we lived had deer lol. Even where I grew up had deer. Now we are settled in zone 8a NC near Pinehurst. And we have tons of deer 😳. After 3 years we decided to put up deer netting for the backyard. Our front yard is exposed to deer but I have the following plants. A variety of salvias like Blue and Pink marvel, catnip, foxglove, Russian sage, 3 types of hyssops, creeping thyme, wooly thyme, daffodils, hyacinths, sweet alyssum, bearded irises and a variety of shrubs that are poky or juniper related. It’s been a learning curve. And they still walk through our garden beds which is destructive in itself.
Thanks for the lists. I am trying Monkshood this season to see if I can grow it in part shade since it’s hardy to zone 7
Happy Planting
Great video 💖💖💖💖💖
Thank you for your videos!! This is a favorite topic of mine!!
I used Irish spring for couple of years and that seemed to work. I left the case on, drilled a hole in the middle, put a string through the hole and hang it close to the garden. I also just laid a soap bar right in my garden, with the case , and that seemed to work too. The one challenge that I encountered is that my neighbor’s dog also likes to take the soap and eat it. So far he is doing fine. I also noticed that cats like to come to lick on the broken soap chips that the dog left on the ground. Again, looked like the cats are doing fine as well. I have been collecting metal baskets to house the soap so hopefully that will keep the animals from stealing the soap 😊.
How about a small suet cage
@@gardeningTLC thanks for the suggestion. I am not familiar with that term so will google it and will try it as well 😊
Hi Michelle, I have to say I love your videos! I have deer and I’m saving this video. I did buy a product that like invisible fencing where the deer get a VERY mild shock and it works great. But I love your lists of plant and trees! Oh also, I have seen animal urine sold at hunting stores and Fleet Farm. I’d love to know if they really work, hummm! I secretly hate deer and love them in my fridge hahahaa, evil laugh! I know I’m mean. But they break my heart 😢
Nah...I grew up with hunters..a good piece of venison is great!
Believe it or not-I went out yesterday to check my hellebores and found that they’ve been eating on them!!! Also, last year they ate my coral bells down to the roots!
Man.....that makes you crazy......
I have to say I am working on this dear dilemma we have tried different things over the years however, this year we are trying three different methods at one time. I will be sure to let you know how the deer and I make out.😂 thank you for your video. I like your honesty.
Please do
I use trip wire alarms and fishing string and that has works perfectly. I have 10acs and this has kept them at bay y at the very rear of my property. Fortunately they have never tasted any of my plants but j have been proactive since day 1. I do use deer off and plant 90% deer resistant plants. I have no live for those little drvils.
I think that is key.....being pro-active.
I bought solar, motion activated, flashing lights off of Amazon a year ago after my neighbor told me that it was deer jumping my fence to visit my buffet. They chewed the entire side of a viburnum shrub. They haven’t returned. Bunnies are a big problem for me. I have to cage any shrub I don’t want chewed to the ground during the winter!
I tried the Irish Spring. I grated the bar & spread it around & it worked for awhile. I didn’t reapply & my deer started munching on plants again. I’m going to try it again
Almost everyone who commented on using the soap said they had to apply it more than once.
I have heard that Milorganite works for awhile
Yes I sprinkle Milorganite early in the year as they are establishing a pathway so far so good. I have had Hostas for 3 years now.
Yes please talk about groundhogs. Need help with that giant pain in my…..! Can not shot it, can not trap it. Hoping it will eat one on the poison plants I have in the garden in stead of my camellias.
The best deer repellent for me has been my cavoodle, for some reason her lil barking keeps them away, I leave the window open and she chases them away. It’s been 16 months here in PA and so far no deer eating here.
Love that!!
I've used grated Irish Spring and cinnamon. So far they have worked. We have 13 acres of timber right behind our house so they might just have plenty to eat. We also take the windfall apples out in the timber for them to enjoy.
What I use to keep the deer from eating my plants especially my hostas is to mix raw eggs, milk, water, cayenne pepper and some Louisiana hot sauce. I don't use a sprayer because the nozzle gets clogged. I use a cheap Dollar Store paint brush and fling the mix onto the plants. Yes it smells, so you'll want to do the mixing in your garage or shed. It seems to work.
Very helpful video! New subscriber!
I have a privacy fence around my backyard, so I don’t worry about that part, but I want to propagate some plants and I need to know what I can put in the front. Thanks!!
Welcome!
Fishing line works for me. Along with Daisy , a mannequin.
Love that!
Regarding dear repellent: Tried human hair (nothing) , fabric softener, dryer sheets, aluminum pie pans no help. Had to put wildlife mesh (fishing line concept without the danger) held up with u- posts because they nearly destroyed my lilac. I use Branded “DEAR B GONE” on my hostas and day lilies and it smells of clove. But it’s a pain because it washes off so not foolproof . Cayenne and cinnamon, doesn’t stay , discolored the plant , have to put on when damp. I never tried Irish spring because I. was afraid hurting plants. “Lilly of the valley terrible unless you place edging so can’t vine -out.
My challenge is raccoons - as soon as I plant something new, by the next morning the raccoons will have dug it up. I've started sprinkling the area around the new plant with cayenne pepper and that seems to keep them away.
Would love to see same type of video addressing them nasty rabbits! New to your Channel, love it and your personality.
Yup...watch for the vegetable series to come out in April (will be Monday posts) and rabbits will be addressed there😀
Deer will eat butterfly bushes, but not down to the ground.
Deer wiil eat Holly, but only in the winter when they are very hungry.
Deer will NEVER eat barberry. Fawns will try it once and spit it out. Barberry has a yellow sap in the limbs that must taste horrendous.
Deer generally don't eat summer sweet.
I've had deer eat some of the flowers you stated were safe, but the names escapes me. Spiderwort was one.
Deer will eat Junipers if they are starving. It must be like eating razor blades.
Electric fences work well, but are ugly. Fawns will sometimes run through them, but learn quickly.
You never know....as I read comments how the deer develop tastes for things in different areas...and again if they are starving...they are eating....
Deer never eat Spice bush a beautiful shrub with small yellow flowers in springtime before leaf out, red berries in fall, and leaves that smell like lemony-gingerbread. Male and female flowers on separate plants. zones 4 - 9
Hey Jennifer ❤❤❤, good day to you and also a wonderful weekend 💐🍀😇. How are you doing today ?
Deer eats the leaves of our Rhodies, and now we spray "Bobex". Seems to be working so far
Cinnamon also repels ants. It won't kill them, but it works for me to keep them off my patio.
Oh nice....I will try that one...
Milorganite works. It smells for a few days after application, but deer move along.
Hmmm...good tip
I’ve crossing my fingers. We live on 80 acres with no fence on all but about 3 acres. Right now about 6:30am 2-5 deer walk along the fence to get to the cattle salt blocks. They can have all they want in the field including the round hay bales. But please stay out of my yard or just pass thru.
I used Irish Spring soap and a cheese grater around my hosta and they left them alone.
did it dissolve in the rain?
@@gardeningTLC It took awhile. The scent stayed around for a long time!
The little ladies (doe) are out in the back of my home as I watch this.
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@@gardeningTLC I love to watch them. However, I made a list and am checking it twice. Gonna plant them on a hillside nice. Non-deer food are coming to town!
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I’ve tried soap and human hair doesn’t work.
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They love eating my cone flowers
See. Look at them adapt......
Tried human hair didn’t work
ahha...I knew it haha
They eat geraniums . The tops right off .
Lol bang bang