Gene363 wrote:Many of my neighbors complain about the deer. According to many of them, sprinklers that are connected to a motion sensor work pretty well. For a garden I'd goto a farm supply shop or horse supply place and get a fence charger for an electric fence.
Tou might try planting a deer fed plot away from your garden, but Murphey says they will still prefer your plants.
98% of our yard is the trees that were here before us. No grass! One flower bed and a little strip along the driveway. I don't plant anything the deer like, especially hosta plants, they love them
Every day between three and thirteen deer pass through our yard moving through the neighborhood and adjacent green areas. We are in city limits so no shooting, but I know they have been taken with a bow, but you'd have to harvest a ton of deer to be rid of them. Maybe when the coyotes move into this area it will reduce their numbers.
I'm in a suburb but immediately behind my 1/3 acre lot is the Blue Hills Reservation. My neighborhood was built in 1960 and is called Deer Park...
The deer population in Blue Hills was up to something like 88 per square mile a few years ago, I think those that work the Reservation say ideally there should be about 8 to 12. All sorts of concerns with tics and other threats to animals and stuff with the over population.
So the last 3 or 4 years they've actually had a lottery to allow population controlling deer hunting, normally the weekend following Thanksgiving and the next one too, nowhere near where I live though (Blue Hills Res touches something like 6 towns).
So my problem is more annoyance. But they do seem to like my buffet more than my close neighbors. Was hoping for an easy solution in three or four small areas where they love to eat. Sort of looking for a set it and forget it answer.
