#2057148 - 09/03/10 10:22 PM
keeping them off the garden?
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waumpuscat
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my uncle ask me to post this so here goes. will hair from the barber shop keep deer out of his garden? He is concerned about his garden and doesn't want to put up all the pie plates and milk jugs and stuff that people use so when he ask me I told him I would be happy to discourage them for him if he weren't so far away. So I told him I knew a group of folks that might could help him. Will sprinkling hair on the perimeter and through the rows work?
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#2057178 - 09/03/10 11:17 PM
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it might for a little while until the deer figure out it's not a threat.
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#2057192 - 09/03/10 11:29 PM
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Every afternoon, take a dirty shirt or cap that was worn and sweaty and hang them. Hang them in a different location every afternoon, and get the ones that you hung out the day before for laundry. If you wash everyday, like my wife, your shirt will only fall 1 day behind from the rest of the laundry. Keep moving them around every day and they wont get used to it. This works--we did it in our peas.
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#2057194 - 09/03/10 11:31 PM
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turkinator
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dont know about the truth of this one, but i heard ivory soap will work well too
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#2057202 - 09/03/10 11:41 PM
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BluegrassDan
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My pawpaw just dusted everything with agricultural lime. Kept em off for a while.
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#2057264 - 09/04/10 05:23 AM
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The only ways to keep them out of a garden for good is either kill them or high fence the garden. All of the other gimmicks or tricks will work for a few days at best.
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#2057391 - 09/04/10 09:22 AM
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Absolutely nothing will stop deer from getting at highly preffered food for long (except a high-fence). Lots of things will work temporarily, but the deer eventually learn to ignore anything.
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#2057394 - 09/04/10 09:27 AM
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Actually, a .22 does a pretty good job, too. Course it aint legal.
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#2057484 - 09/04/10 12:34 PM
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Bone Collector
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dont know about the truth of this one, but i heard ivory soap will work well too
I've heard that too, but it was Irish Springs soap.
Edited by Bone Collector (09/04/10 12:35 PM)
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