How to Deter Deer From Your Garden

Gardens are a wonderful way to beautify a property and grow food. Protecting this garden's beauty and functionality is another issue altogether. One of the prime threats to the garden is deer. With a few inventive tricks, an individual can deter deer from her garden. While fencing the garden is an obvious means of protection, there are others ways to keep the garden safe from deer.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• String, wire or twine
• Spray bottle
• Rotten eggs
• Human hair
• Plastic bags
• Tree limbs, stakes or poles

1. Purchase some bars of soap from a local grocery store and tie sturdy strings or wires around these bars of soap. Now tie these strings to tree limbs around the perimeter of the garden. If there are no available tree limbs, place sticks or posts in the ground and tie the bars of soap to them. The deer will not come near the garden because deer do not like the smell of soap.

2. Keep the clippings of your hair the next time you get a haircut. Then take them home and place the clippings in aerated plastic bags. Next, tie string around the bags and suspend them from the trees or stakes in the garden. In addition, you can spread the hair around the garden to deter deer from your garden because the smell of human hair is a natural deer repellent.

3. Spray the scent of spoiled eggs around your garden. First, you will need to allow a few eggs to spoil. Then mix the eggs with water in a spray bottle. Finally, use the spray bottle to disseminate the spoiled egg smell which will keep the deer out of the garden.

4. Plant lavender, alums or salvia throughout the garden. These plants have a strong scent which deter deer from invading your garden.