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howtorepeldeer

No deerFirst we're sacraficing roosters, now I find myself walking widdershins around the garden sprinkling a foul-smelling fluid on the ground.  I haven't resorted to witchcraft, though, in my attempts to repel the deer --- it just looks like it.

I'm convinced that the one method that will really work at keeping the deer out of our garden is a big fence
Mark has built a fence around the most troublesome spots, which take up about a quarter of the perimeter, and hopes to finish the fence project by the end of the winter.  But there's always so much work to do on the farm that the fence takes a backseat, and we need to repel the deer now.

We've tried a lot of different deer repelling tactics over the last two years, and what I've learned is that most things work for a short time, but that deer quickly get used to them.  Deer repelling, like organic gardening, is all about rotating.  Here are the techniques we've tried:



We finally solved the deer in the garden problem, and the solution was so elegant we gave it a new website.  Check out our deer deterrent website for free plans!





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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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