I just spent a couple of grand having my front yard redone. Removed a tree and replaced it. Removed some scraggly bushes and replaced them with boxwoods. Had coralbells and liriope planted for color.

Something has been eating my coralbells. My landscaper first noticed and told me that he might replace them with something else.

That's all well and good, and my landscaper is terrific, but just for future reference, isn't there something I can spray/plant that will repel these foragers? I think I remember coyote urine or some such, but I don't want to be extreme in a suburban community...

Human hair will keep deer from munching. Get your barber to provide the clippings and put it in soome ladies type nylons.

In yer head
In yer head

put a fukkin'
bullit in yer bunny head


till yer dead
till yer dead

till yer fuckin'
bunny bleedin'
in my yard

bunny ded.

ded fukkin bunny. Yo.

(Dolores O'Riordan would have sung this song...)

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Originally posted by Johnny 3eagles:
Human hair will keep deer from munching. Get your barber to provide the clippings and put it in soome ladies type nylons.

For real? I've used "deer fence" crap that smells like vomit and only works for a day or so. All this time I could have been saving my shave clippings?

Hahahahaaaa

A 12' foot fence will deter the deer, and slow down the bunnies for a minute or so...

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Originally posted by archerman:
Hahahahaaaa

A 12' foot fence will deter the deer, and slow down the bunnies for a minute or so...

This.

A motivated and/or hungry deer will eat anything and everything. The ONLY way to stop this is to kill them or fence them out.

Some things that I have found that they are not too fond of (but will still eat if hungry enough) are caraganas, lavender, and bleeding hearts. Other than that, can't help you...unless you need a good fence contractor.

Where are the deer coming from?

Plant some clover between where they're coming from and where your flowers are located, put up a tree stand, and then whack 'em and stack 'em (within the bounds of the law of course).

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
In yer head
In yer head

put a fukkin'
bullit in yer bunny head


till yer dead
till yer dead

till yer fuckin'
bunny bleedin'
in my yard

bunny ded.

ded fukkin bunny. Yo.

(Dolores O'Riordan would have sung this song...)

It's been a long time since I've been scared by anything ( I ain't skeered!), but after sigmonkey's post, I became a bit on edge (yet my fears were assuaged a bit by his mention of Dolores O'Riordan...Damn, what a beautiful voice//person. Rest in Peace!).

Use REPEL, should find it at any hardware store. White spray bottle with purple accents.

I used the scarecrow and my lawn timer 9PM to 6AM to pressurize the line. After a couple of years of maintaining the system the deer stayed away although the rabbits eventually came back.

I will be following this. The Yooper deer come right up on my patio and lick all the bird seed out of my bird feeder. I go outside to run them off but they just walk a short distance away and wait for me to leave. Cant shoot since there are too many people around. I have tried some sprays but no luck.

There are a very few plants that are unpalatable to deer, but in hard times, you'll find it difficult to keep them away from lush vegetation. Currently here, they're even chowing down on prickly pear cactus and juniper foliage because of the extremely dry conditions.

In Jerkwater a while back, around this time of year, a doe stomped the shit out of a lady's pug dog in her yard. When the lady went out to intervene the doe worked her over too. That doe may have been eating Loco weed- it's one of the few green plants available in the pasture now.

Sonsabitches stand right under my living room window and chow down on my Euonymus. Last year they ate my tulips right down to the ground.

Planning to cover things with bug netting this year and hope that keeps them out.

What I don't understand is that we had a pretty open Winter, should have been easy for the deer but they ate my Yew shrubs right down to the bark as far up as they could reach. Yew foliage is supposed to be toxic.

Although not foolproof, go pee, daily, where you still have vegetation. I still have a little green left and this seems to work on my deer.

I tried deer away on my garden and it did not work. I think the rain washed it off. I was not going to spray it daily.

Animals ate just about everything in my garden one year except cucumbers, tomatoes and watermelon..oh and potatoes.

Flip the script on them, if you take my meaning...

If my failing memory is working, try scattering moth balls around where you don't want the pests raiding your yard.