Gardening, deer, human hair?

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Someone told me that if you take human hair and sprinkle it in the garden bed and around the edges, the deer simply will not come and molest your garden.... at all.

This makes good sense to me (the scent and all) but I wondered if this is something anyone in here has heard about? My neighbor swears it is true....., but he does not have a garden! lol

I know you can get clippings from beauty shops and all for nothing, and wondered if it was a good thing to do, or just a story.
 
Have not tried hair in the garden. I had a buck decide to use one of my privacy trees for a rub one season. Put hair all around it, put perfume all over it, peed on it everyday (well that was just to make the neighbor jealous), parked besside it. Tried all kinds of stuff that didn't work. Ended up putting a metal "T" post inside the foliage of the tree and that stopped it. Maybe eating and rubbing are different though.
 
Nope. Had a lady try it around her flower beds when I was in the landscaping business. Didn't do a thing.
 
Tnx. I am building a series of raised beds and thinking of just putting fold down fencing around them.
 
Anything different like that will work for a bit. But the deer get used to stuff quick, especially if they are hungry.
 
I also heard that. Didn't work. I also tried marigolds (supposedly deer and rabbits hate the smell), nope deer walked over them and rabbits ate them.

I finally put up a fence.
 
I can't personally vouch for it's effectiveness , but I've read that Irish Spring soap ( shaved and hung in mesh bags ) around a garden is " supposed" to be a deterrent ....
 
Ronsc said:
I can't personally vouch for it's effectiveness , but I've read that Irish Spring soap ( shaved and hung in mesh bags ) around a garden is " supposed" to be a deterrent ....
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for a while yes, then like others said the deer got used to the smell and just shook it off to get to what they want. When they are hungry they will even eat holly tree leaves.
 
Buy a bar of the cheapest, stinkiest bar soap you can. Shave some of that soap off in the edge of the garden. Do this regularly until you use that bar, then switch brands to the next stinkiest cheapest soap you can buy.

Keep it changing or they'll get used to it. My mother in law does this to keep them out of her hostas.
 
I’ve not heard that with human hair but have heard it effective with dog hair. I just assume they’ll get used to that too.
 
rantingredneck said:
Buy a bar of the cheapest, stinkiest bar soap you can. Shave some of that soap off in the edge of the garden. Do this regularly until you use that bar, then switch brands to the next stinkiest cheapest soap you can buy.

Keep it changing or they'll get used to it. My mother in law does this to keep them out of her hostas.
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DCGallim said:
They get use to the smell eventually and don't care. We put a radio in the watermelon patch playing music all night. It worked at first but now the deer just like listening to George Jones.
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I used a radio in a shed near my garden and blasted NPR (National Pinky Radio) from it. It seemed to work OK because even deer seem to be offended by the commie trash they heard on there. They came back and ate my garden down to a nub when my SIL turned off the radio without telling me.

My neighbor has had luck with a double electric fence. The two fences are about apart. The outer fence is a single strand about 2 feet off the ground. Evidently it is difficult for the deer to jump a fence of this configuration.
 
this is what worked for neighbor: empty beer bottles on the ground.
he stood them up with a little sand inside for ballast and circled his
wife's flowers. i don't know why it worked, but i do know the deer
(or something) knocks them down so he resets them.
no deer, no rabbits, no nothing. over 4 years now.
of course, you could use any bottles.
and it won't cost much to try it.
 
I have tried everything over the years, even tying the dog out in the garden, nothing worked.
Finally found a solution that worked.
Put up posts or dowel rods around the garden spot. Run two strands of mono fishing line around the garden about 1ft and 2ft high.
I guess that the deer bump into the line and can't see it, and it scares them away.Works for me.
 
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