Continuing with Deeroscaping, the practice of landscape design with deer resistance in mind, lets look at some of the deer deterrent design steps.
1. Choose deer resistant alternatives as much as possible. Categorize the plants you need by form, function,color, and size. There are several charts of rarely damaged plants to use to substitute plants of similar size, flower color, growth habit, etc.Check http://www.deer-departed.com/deer-resistant-plants.html for several charts of resistant plants.
2.Plant deer resistant plants around the outside edges of the landscape.This may be enough to discourage deer from coming in further to find your more susceptible plants on the interior. If you just have to have plants that aren’t on the rarely-damaged lists, then you will have to plan for spraying the plants with repellent. Keeping the beds narrow enough that you can spray from both sides will be helpful. If you will have to spray repellent, you can find recipes to make your own at http://deer-departed.com/deer-repellent-recipes.html
Next time we will take about more deer deterrent design tips.
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