How To Keep Wildlife Out Of Your Garden
Fencing for gardens is the only sure fire way to keep wildlife out of your garden.
How to keep wildlife out of your garden. Another option is to use the smell of vinegar or hot pepper flakes to keep your garden animal free. Depending on the amount of money you can spend fences are one way to keep deer out of your garden. Seal off access to crawl spaces beneath your porch or deck. Fencing is the most effective and sometimes only way to keep unwanted visitors out of your garden.
Wild animals do not want to be around humans or dogs which pose a threat to them so the smell of human or dog hair will help keep them out of your garden. Add a fence around your plants. And sure free range chickens help earn their keep in summer by eating bugs but they will scratch through newly planted beds to eat the seeds the moment your back is turned. A good way to keep animals out of your vegetable garden is to build a fence.
Clearly some sort of defense is in order but enclosing your entire garden with a critter proof fence is expensive and time consuming. Consider putting up a temporary electric fence or a wire fence to fend off deer. Place your hair or your dog s hair throughout your flowerbeds vegetable garden or herb garden. Put up a fence from day one to prevent them from finding the food source in the first place says david drake extension wildlife specialist and professor at the university of wisconsin madison.
Make your garden less attractive to wildlife. Repeat the process every two weeks. Fences can work great but they may be expensive and require some effort to install. Try soaking corn cobs in vinegar for about 10 minutes and then placing them throughout your garden.
You can choose from a variety of fence types to place around your garden acting as a wall between animals and your vegetables. To provide a barrier from animals as small as rabbits cats dogs and even gophers. Another way to deter deer from munching on your garden is spraying an unappealing scent. To even protecting your garden from really dangerous animals such as coyotes deers and bears.
Garden hobbyist mary r. Has been making this homemade rather stinky spray that helps keep deer out of her.