Deeroscaping II

Continuing with basics landscape design in deer areas, lets look at some other precautions we can take.

3.  Determine the main entryway of deer and make it as discouraging as possible. Just as we talked about making the edges unfriendly, position plants that are poisonous to deer or at least plants on the rarely damaged list by the entryway. If you have to use plants that are occasionally damaged, then keep the plants sprayed with repellent. Deer are creatures of habit. Find their path that they have been using when entering your landscape and make sure it is not appealing to the deer.

4.  Hide susceptible plants from the deer. Deer won’t go were they can’t see past or see over. Plant border hedges or large plants to hide smaller susceptible plants under larger deer resistant trees and shrubs.

5.  Keep border grasses cut down and keep edibles picked up. If there is tall grass, the deer are encouraged to make beds. If fruit, nuts, or unharvested vegetables are left on the ground, the deer will find it hard to resist entering the landscape.

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