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O/T deer gardens/crops

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Nancy Howell

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Been reading of issues with deer eating gardens/crops.

This probably wouldn't be feasible for acres of crops, but I wonder if the "organic" hot pepper bug spray (boil about a gallon of water with hot peppers & garlic) would also deter deer. This makes a very hot tea that you spray on the veggies. Bugs don't like it.

They probably wouldn't like the hot, strong taste any more than the bugs do.

Once veggies are washed/rinsed the "spray" is gone.
 
I have yet to ever have a problem with deer in my garden but I do plant a lot of herbs and marigolds around the garden and that works well plus the herbs are nice to have around for drying and using
 
My cousin was telling last night that he discovered starting fluid will calm a bull right down and make him back off. I wonder if it would deter deer? If you could just get it hooked up to a motion sensor.....
 

I tried that hot pepper spray one year when we had a BIG problem with grasshoppers. Didn't even slow 'em down, in fact, I think they liked it.

Only way I've found to keep the deer and 'coons out of the garden is a five strand HOT electric fence.
 
I mixed up a batch of 2 eggs, 2 cups water, 2 cloves garlic and a teaspoon of red pepper. Let mixture sit for a week then strain and spray around garden. It smells really bad, almost like vomit. It did work better than Coyote urine.

Elec. fence works well.
 
There are deer/rabbit repellent sprays that use cayenne pepper and egg whites to make an awful smelling concoction. We use it on white pine trees in N MN and it works most of the time.
 
I would put up what ever 2 wire electric fence I had material for at about 2 and 4 foot. As you have noticed,unless deer are fleeing,they will crawl through or under fences if possiable. Conventional wisdom would suggest 1 or 2 zaps and they wouldn't return for a while. I'm sure they would be more presistant if they had already been eating somthing before the fence went up. A friend was telling me about a fence charger he plans to try this fall when peanuts are harvested. It supplys reduced power to conserve batery until something tuches the fence at which point within a micro secound jolts are sent out and a power point on the charger is turned on to operate a light or what you choose to hook to it. He is useing a propane cannon. Sounds good on paper if for nothing else it doesn't upset folks living nearby like a 24/7 propane gun. Deer are easier to deter when browse is plentiful. They will hardly come to a feeder or wheat patch if there is plentiful honey suckel nearby.
 
I agree - I have had good luck with DeerOff spray. But a homemade concoction would be good, because the stuff is spendy!
 
Wrap aluminum foil on the fence wire 10 or 15 ft apart between posts. Then mop peanut butter and honey on the alumonum foil. Give them a chance to taste the fence instead of going thru it and it will stop them for a while.
 
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