Congratulations Frilly!!!

Congrats Frilly, good luck on the move.

Good luck with your house. Maybe your new area won't be a deer resort.

I haven't seen it mentioned yet but there is a product called Bobbex which is very effective on deer. I have a friend who uses it in his garden and applies it once a month, regardless of the amount of rainfall. It has really made a difference for him. Just google "Bobbex" for more information.

I'm in the country. On two sides I have farms and on two sides I have forest. There are enormous numbers of deer in this area and they come through my daylily field. They eat the young daylily sprouts in the early spring and again in the late fall. The rest of the year there is enough food for them in the natural areas and they do not bother the daylily flowers, buds or pods.

There was one year when some of the buds and flowers were eaten in the early part of our flowering season. That was because a doe decided to have her fawn nearby and she used my daylily field for quick meals to stay in sight of her baby.

There was another year when a porcupine decdied that the pods were good food.

If I want to stop the deer from eating the daylily sprouts I would need to put up a 6 wire electric fence (to nine feet high) and then get the deer to learn to avoid the fenced area by being shocked by the fence by baiting it (apparently with aluminum strips and peanut butter).

I did not see this suggestion that I read yesterday. They said put vicks salve on a few leaves.

This is what I have done with good success because I get herds in my yard and not occasional bite. I am on 3 acres and I have one acre that I left as woods for them to eat.

I purchased...
Wolf urine that I put in a spray bottle and Spray that occasionally on grocery store plastic bags and hang them on the fence where I see they may have been by the poop evidence.

I put some of the Sweeney's Deer Repellent gadgets. They are covered containers that you put on a stem. That is suppose to trigger flight response to the deer. I suspect it is a wolf urine concoction. Home Depot purchase.

Homemade spray. Onion, Garlic, hot sauce, wolf urine, egg, mixture.

Biondi Deer off work for my deer. I tried every one on the market. Every area deer are different. I do think you have to try them all to see which one your deer do not like.

Nite Guard system. It is a flashing red solar light to fool the deer that they think danger wolf blinking eyes. Of course near that area I spray the wolf urine. So it is a site and smell fix I am using.

I have herds of deer not an occasional walk through deer problem. When I see deer it is 10 or more. I have had as many as 20 deer in the front yard at one time.

I also sprinkle Millorganite 3 times a year.

Finally, their path I have picked up pallets from the grocery store for free. They have trouble walking on these because their feet go through the slat space and they fall down.

I have done everything short of a gun. So far it seems to be working just one hosta had some bites. So I am not sure if that was deer, rabbit, groundhog, etc. since it was only one hosta.

WOW Cinta, you have deer, big time. I just can't imagine and I'm sure my son can only dream of having that many. He'd be in Heaven. I on the other hand, would be in H__l. I hope your solutions continue to help. The pallets, seem like a sure fired way to keep them out of the paths, but I'd think they would just learn to walk in the beds. Darn, that would be bad. I guess in an act of desperation, you could put the pallets in the beds and plant around them. The lush growth of the hostas would cover them in the summer time.

I'll continue to complain about my terrible soil, but atleast it doesn't give me nightmare like I'm sure your deer do you.

Mona, maybe all of us just need to have your son visit for a while?

OH he would have a blast. He's going to be 30 this year. Been married 10 years, has 4 children 6,4,2, and 7 months. He loves to play with his children because he's just a big(6'6" 260# with 14% body fat) boy. He worships his precious wife,(she works full time and going to school to be a teacher full time) He works 50 hours on the weekends and keeps the kids during the week. He loves to fish, fish fish and bow hunt and hunt with guns too, but really loves bow hunting. He loves to be spoiled, is a yes mamm and no mamm guy about everything and so are his children. Oh did I mention he's a type AAAA personalitty and has to be doing something all the time. They are a precious family/. Believe me, if he could come up there and not have to worry about money, he's stay and hunt deer until he couldn't walk.

THe only thing is, I know I would lose them to all the world outside and the lakes up North and I'd never get to see them. If it didn't get so darned cold way up North, I'd probably want to go too. Just toooooooo cold up in your neck of the woods.

Mona, it's not that cold where we're moving! It's zone 7 too! It would be like you were at home!

Just saw on this thread on the ATP newsletter and wanted to tell you that Plantskydd is some wonderful stuff! I spray it on maybe twice during the first month of spring and it works excellent. We live right across the street from a nature park and have lots of deer. Once dry it doesn't wash off either. For the first time this year I used the Plantskydd granules for rabbits and it works just as well.

Wishing you good luck - I know how disappointing that is.

I currently don't have deer problems, although the Wisconsin DNR said the deer were really really hungry this year because of the dry year last year, and the extremely long snow covered winter this year.

I do know at work - 200 acres of prime lake front property in Madison, that the deer this week were right up next to my building chomping all the daylilies. But work has a 25 mph speed limit and a lot of critters - so no predators. The I see them mostly at dawn and dusk, and they spend time in the apple orchard next to my building.My workplace doesn't mind the deer but periodically when the neighborhoods complain, we hire a company in late fall to bait and shoot the excess deer, and the meat gets donated to the food pantries. ~Jan

It's wonderful that the meat goes to the food pantries. That's a blessing for all.

I skimmed this thread but not sure if anyone has tried this FREE FANTASTIC deterent???!!!!
When I first moved into my home I planted a ton of beautiful blue pansies & the deer ate them to the ground. This year(12 years later) was the first year they ate my daylillies!!!
The only thing that has worked for me & has worked amazingly is...
when I get my hair cut, I ask my stylist to sweep up all the cut hair & take a bag of human hair cuttings home & scatter it around my flowers where the deer are eating & they leave them totally alone! I have to re-apply occasionally but it works like a charm!!!
Good luck & hope this helps!!!
Lila

Thanks for that Lila! I'm in need of a haircut, so I'll save the hair! Can't hurt to try it, and it's free!

I've read on many places about human hair and dog hair both working. It's worth a try for anyone. some folks swear by it, others say it works for awhile.

I have 9 does in my yard daily that I feed shelled corn , bread or fruit at times and water
They will eat my perennials if I do not use the below item.

I buy a bottle of spray called Deer Off ....at Lowes store
and I spray the outer daylillys and other plants around the flower bed..
This has garlic in the spray..

The other one is Repels All
by Shotgun company
in a white bottle at Home Depot or Lowes

It has always worked for me.
I spray after a heavy rain

and every 2 weeks

just on the outer edge of the flower beds not every plant..
use of shrubs too..

The smell of garlic leaves after one day so you will not smell it but they do..
Sheridragonfly..

I've started throwing fire crackers off my deck every night to make them think I'm shooting. I sure hope it works better than when I yelled "Bang, Bang" at them.