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Old 10-31-2003, 11:00 PM
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help!!!! deer are eating my flowers, what should i do?
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Old 11-01-2003, 12:43 AM
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Lisa, there are a bazillion deer repellents. Go to Google and enter deer repellent. There is also a tape called plot saver that works very well. My wife usually just puts waxed string around her rock gardens and ornamental flowers. I would imagine soap on a rope would work too. In season a weapon with a light recoil works very well for ladies. [&:]
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Old 11-01-2003, 03:39 AM
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I WOULD SAY PUT SOME MALTH BALLS OUT AROUND IT
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Old 11-01-2003, 04:12 AM
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get yourslef a deer decoy,it stopped them from eatting my sweetpotatoes.besides that your nrighbors will talk about the deer in your garden.
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Old 11-01-2003, 06:36 AM
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.30-06 or Muzzy 125
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Old 11-01-2003, 08:22 AM
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Deodorant soap bars or soap spray work well. Also human hair is supposed to ward them off (go to the barber shop).

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Old 11-01-2003, 04:48 PM
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a friend of mine tried all the human hair thing and car battery' s,all he wound up with was a lot of hair,some battires and hungry deer.

the plot barrier seems to work good for most that have tried it......it' s a string with a sent you spray on the string.haven' t tried it so don' t know if it works....just know the hair and battery' s doesn' t; or didn' t for him.
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Old 11-04-2003, 09:58 AM
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Here' s a simple and quick fix. Tie a stout string to some small posts, even those 3 ft. elect fence posts or even wooden slats. Tie WHITE plastic shopping bags, (colored don;' t work very good) to the string every 3-5 feet. Keep the bags about 2-3 ft. from the ground. Don' t know if it' s the white color or maybe they have a UV glow to them, but they have kept the deer out of my half acre pea patch which they love to browse on. Give it a try, it' s cheap and easy to set up.

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Old 11-04-2003, 02:54 PM
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Russ; I set up a 3d blind for hunting this week. The wind blowing through the blind was making strange strange sounds that the deer obviously weren' t used to. Grape growers have thin plastic strips that howl in the wind to keep bids away, this could be the same effect that the bags had with your deer.

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