Deer resistant (proof) landscape
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Topic: Deer resistant (proof) landscape
Posted By: Okie Boarder
Subject: Deer resistant (proof) landscape
Date Posted: March-18-2015 at 4:13pm
| Looking for some advice and suggestions here. For those of you that have active deer populations around your place, what have you found can be planted and not get eaten by the deer? I'm looking for plants for planters, shrubs in planters, smaller trees, flowers, bulbs, etc. |
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Posted By: Orlando76
Date Posted: March-18-2015 at 4:49pm
| Why would you want to do that? |
Posted By: Treybizttu
Date Posted: March-18-2015 at 5:04pm
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We gave up at the lakehouse nothing but cactus and local stuff in the beds that they don't seem to care for. Anything pretty was eaten within a day or two. Actually the only thing that reduced the amount they ate in the beds was making sure the feeder was full and spinning every few days. :) At least we get to watch them eat their breakfast while we have ours when we are down. |
Posted By: Riley
Date Posted: March-18-2015 at 5:23pm
| About the only thing that works around here is fencing. Do you have Lyme decease out there? |
Posted By: dochockey
Date Posted: March-18-2015 at 7:01pm
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Pinus Plastica lol In Michigan the deer don't like Juniper not sure about your region ------------- 1989 Teal Ski Nautique 1967 Mustang Harris Float Sunfish |
Posted By: Okie Boarder
Date Posted: March-18-2015 at 8:07pm
| I'm pretty sure lyme disease is present out here. |
Posted By: TX Foilhead
Date Posted: March-18-2015 at 9:32pm
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If you're lucky enough to have fire ants then Lyme disease isn't usually a problem. The deer are thick here, but Lyme disease isn't near as common as it is on the east coast. There's really not much they want eat if they get hungry enough, since you have some space I'm going to guess they won't be really thick. They don't tend to like herbs and they won't eat palms (might be a little far north though for palm choices). There's about 900 varieties of Salvia, they don't tend to like them, but I have seen them eat them when there's nothing else. You can get away with some things they like by having a border of things they don't around it. They'll eat or rub most trees so protect them until they are tall enough that the deer can't chew on them. I do like deer around Crepe Myrtles because they keep the suckers on the trunks cleaned off. I also like to test things, buy one or 2 and see what happens, Fence the garden!!!! If you'll eat it so will they. My neighbor, who also feeds them, has a good sized garden (20x50) and he does a simple 3 wire electric fence around it. Really easy to take down and get the big tiller in when he needs to and not really noticeable. The folks to my side have a setup like your last garden, they built a 7 ft fence around it and that doesn't disappear like the electric wire will, and it's a lot more work to bring everything in and out through a gate. |
Posted By: 8122pbrainard
Date Posted: March-18-2015 at 9:54pm
Yup! It's the only thing I found to be effective. For "training" the deer, I put peanut butter on aluminum foil strips and attach them to the fence wire. They learn real fast with a zap to the tongue!! The only problem I ever had was when a skunk checked out the low wire trying to get under my garden shed. Well, the stink lingered for over a week! ------------- /diaries/details.asp?ID=1622" rel="nofollow - 54 Atom /diaries/details.asp?ID=2179" rel="nofollow - 77 Tique 64 X55 Dunphy Keep it original, Pete < |
TX Foilhead wrote:Posted By: Okie Boarder
Date Posted: March-19-2015 at 3:08pm
| LOL on the "training". If I did that, our dog would get a bit of "training" too, because I'm sure he'd try to lick it. |
Posted By: Okie Boarder
Date Posted: March-19-2015 at 3:09pm
| As far as fencing the garden, I've heard that if you fence in an area that is not too big, with say 6' fence, they don't tend to jump in the area. I understand the reasoning to be that they would feel too confined in the space. Have any of y'all noticed the same thing? |
Posted By: Orlando76
Date Posted: March-19-2015 at 3:43pm
| I have a 10x10x4' high fenced in area up at the cow pasture, keeps the cows off my feeder but the deer will still jump in. As mentioned before in this thread, Ive spent many many hours watching deer year round and they will def gravitate towards corn and leave other good munchies in the immediate area alone. I've tried evey known deer favorite from peanut butter to clover and they'll pass it for corn. Apple trees would be an exception. |
Posted By: TX Foilhead
Date Posted: March-19-2015 at 5:38pm
6ft isn't hard for them to get over, but they have to want what's inside, 8ft will keep out Whitetail Deer. The dog will probably figure out electricity quicker than the kids. 
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Posted By: Okie Boarder
Date Posted: March-19-2015 at 6:00pm
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Hmmm, interesting. I will definitely be planting a food plot for the deer and may do some corn feeders to keep them mostly interested in places other than a garden and the house planters. I'll have to see what I need to do for the garden when it comes down to it. LOL on the electric fence and the kids. |
Posted By: 8122pbrainard
Date Posted: March-19-2015 at 7:33pm
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The electric fence works on the deer, kids, dogs and even my wife (she forgot to turn it off before attempting to unhook the fence)! ------------- /diaries/details.asp?ID=1622" rel="nofollow - 54 Atom /diaries/details.asp?ID=2179" rel="nofollow - 77 Tique 64 X55 Dunphy Keep it original, Pete < |
Posted By: Toertel
Date Posted: March-19-2015 at 7:50pm
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so here the useless advice from the south: why do ya'll think it is called buckshot? ------------- 1994 Sport Nautique |