two cherry trees last spring, and they where both shoulder height, ones been chewed off than broke down to knee high!!!! The other has all the buds chewed off and some of the bark. I hope they survive! And my lilac bush has been chewed down to about a foot high too! I have a fence around my garden, but to have to fence in my trees and bushes over winter, what next...

I once had uninvited guests decide to put a salt lick and deer food in out yard. I was so angry. I cleaned up everything praying the deer would not visit. The deer can easily jump 5 foot fences so it it hard to keep them out without inviting them in. I have heard people have had good success using poop from the big cats as fertilizer. You can get it fom zoos.

Found this link of tried stuff to keep deer away. Of course most of them you have to reapply after it rains.

They eat my lilies each year. We have split rail fence and they either jump over it or dip lower and go under it. There are sprays that you can use on you plants to discourage them.

BTW, (by the way) a farmer friend told me that it's only necessary to 'fence' the yard with string at the deers chest height, in order to keep them out of the yard. Good luck

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by capoodle 08 Apr 2011

Have seen on many occasions the deer going over, under, and even between rows of wire fencing. Also, seen them up on their hind legs stretching to get fruit off the trees.

by sewfrenzie 08 Apr 2011

Yes me too. I have also seen them jump over an electric fence to get into my garden and eat my veggies.

The deer ate lots of hosta in our yard, but it saddened me to see how thin they were. We even saw a buck grazing in the yard, and I could have counted his ribs.
Perhaps I'll plant a deer garden for them this year.

Where we live deer are around all the time and I've practically gave up on a garden and started container gardening on our deck. The deer even get over the farmers electric fences and invade their gardens. One neighbor has that orange construction safety netting around her small garden two widths high and that helps until the ground hogs/gophers find her garden tasty. Then she put screening down to keep them away from the plants roots. Someone said to spread human hair around your garden. Never tried it though.

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by sewfrenzie 08 Apr 2011

I've heard both human hair and dog hair, but once it rains the scent is gone and in they go. I hung scratched cd discs last year, lasted for about a month then they got wise to it. I've been told to hang pop cans with cigeratte butss and ashes in it. Stinks to hi heaven, lol, but again rain dilutes the smell and pretty soon they get used to it. You wouldn't believe all the stuff I've tried, lol!