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July 31, 2006 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Southern Ohio
Posts: 170
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12 ga. deer repellent!!
I am ready to SCREAM!!!
The deer got into my tomatos and devoured about 70% of them!!! Nusiance, nothing but a nusiance!! I'd love to plug'em while they had a tomato in their mouth!!! They were actually standing IN the 11" raised beds that are attached to my garage!!! Found tracks!!Their stomachs were so full that I found 5 tomatos that just had teeth marks in them with not so much as a bite taken out of them!!! But guess what? They didn't even touch the basil, which was right next to the tomatos!! I still have some, but it was looking like I was going to have a bumper crop for my first year, now what do I have? Hardly nothing. All that hard work.......AHHhhhhhh!! Any one have a good remedy exept a good ole 12 ga. slug? No repeat visitors that way!!!! |
August 1, 2006 | #2 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Texas
Posts: 3,027
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Neil, sorry to hear about all this. I'll cut right to the chase -- the solution is to put up a nice, tall electrified fence. Either that, or get a good spry outside dog or two that can and will patrol the area.
* not an 'invisible' fence * not spraying the perimeter with human urine *or spreading hair around * or soap, like Irish spring or such * or doing the naked chicken dance at midnight to show tunes * or rotten eggs * etc, etc, .... Those things may or may not work, and if so, the effect will be temporary at best. |
August 1, 2006 | #3 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Den of Drunken Fools
Posts: 38,539
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Deer, ' forked horned goats, thats all they are.
The deer fence is the best thing to do. And a big skillet!!!!! Worth |
August 1, 2006 | #4 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Left Coasty
Posts: 964
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hmmm...it's my understanding that deer make a right nice sausage and smoke up pretty nice. ZBQ, I suspect you know how to dop that.
My sister uses the dog in the garden/10' high herring net system. Although, sometimes, it is problemmatic for me, dang netting tangles me up when crawling through it.
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Lets see...$10 for Worth and $5 for Fusion, man. Tomatoes are expensive! Bob |
August 1, 2006 | #5 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Pa.
Posts: 24
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12ga. deer repellent!!
ZBQ, I have good luck using dog hair(from local groomer),it helps with deer,rabbits,and ground hogs.
Just put it around the plants. Dennis |
August 1, 2006 | #6 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Southern Ohio
Posts: 170
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I will try the dog hair just to see if it helps, but, if my suspicions are correct, they will not even be phased. We have 3 pups who use the entire yard for their bathroom and they haven't been the least bit hesitant.
MIL has a dog that must shed 3 POUNDS of hair a DAY!! Will get some from her house. |
August 1, 2006 | #7 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Den of Drunken Fools
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That hair thing wont work unless the deer see about 5 or 6 of their brothers hung up in a tree!!!
Werth |
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