Re: deers just love iris

Hello - I just walked through my gardens and found more deer tracks than 
I have ever seen before.  They did in my tulips, daylilies, hollyhocks, 
hyacinths and even nibbled on some of the iris greenery.  Frankly, I have 
tried all of the methods referenced - soap, human hair, tiger dung (we 
have an exotic animal farm nearby) radios, urine - none worked. The only 
thing that has somewhat worked is putting some bloodmeal in a pop or beer 
can and placing it near the vulnerable plants and shrubs.  The advantage 
to putting it in the can is that it is not washed away by rains.  I must 
warn however, that the blood meal develops a STRONG odor - guaranteed to 
draw some strange looks and comments from visitors.  I have finally 
resolved that in the countryside,  a gardener needs to either learn to 
live with the deer or put up big ugly fences.  Bob Kromenaker  in 
Mountain Home AR  Zone 6 Happy to be 800 miles south of Minneapolis.
    > gunnar - this sounds a little disgusting, but i have always heard 
    > that human
    > urine helps keep them away (mark your territory), or even better, 
    > manure from
    > large predators from a zoo (lions and tigers).  slightly less 
    > disgusting is
    > human hair hung in little net bags.  or least disgusting, soap.  i  
    > use the
    > big dog approach myself, so have not tried these other tricks.
    > 
    > there must be different tastes among different deer - the 
    > white-tailed deer
    > around here eat daylilies.
    > 
    > linda mann e. tenn, usa
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