How do you keep deer from eating flowers?

Keep Deer From Eating Your Flowers

• I have heard that you can by cougar urine and spray your bushes/flowers. It can be purchased at most home improvement or nursery supply stores.
• You can take human hair (ie. from a hairbrush, or barber shop) and put around the area where the deer are eating and that can help to keep them away. They do not like the scent of human hair.
• Deer do not like bones either. Sprinkling bone meal will do the trick. If that doesn't suit for aesthetic reasons, you can also use any other kind of bone. Be careful though, as using a steak bone for example may attract bears instead.
• Tin pie plates or cans tied to stakes will make deer nervous for a while, especially during the hunting season.

While all of these will work, keep in mind that it will be necessary for you to reapply the solution periodically depending on precipitation amounts and wind conditions. Keep in mind what you might attract also. Other cats may be attracted to the scent of a cougar; if you use coyote urine instead, you might bring in the neighborhood dogs. There are plants that naturally repell deer that you can plant along a property line that will keep deer out of the area. Not every solution will be 100% successful though. You may need to combine several, and even change them as time passes. Deer are very adaptive and will get used to any regular pattern if they truly want your flowers.

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