We have part of the property deer fenced, but cannot do it all. We
had water blaster gadgets along the creek, but turned them off because of the drought and need to conserve water. We
have a critter-hunting crazed dog, but he sleeps indoors with us, and in any event had been shipped off to our pet sitter as we recently had to go out of town for 5 days.
On the strength of comments on this thread (and having tried many other deer sprays), I bought some Bobbex. I sprayed the daylilies, roses, and pelargoniums in the (deer accessible) Near 40 just before we went out of town.
I came back to devastation.... almost all of the buds on 7 of the near white Near 40 daylilies in the Moon Garden were eaten, as were miscellaneous buds on 6-7 of the daylilies along the walkway, buds on about half of my seedlings (which had not seen bloom), miscellaneous Flower Carpet roses, the rose 'Lady Emma Hamilton', and some of my pelargoniums.
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WHY did they not rather eat 'Bali Watercolor', 'Alternate Universe', or 'Cameroon Night', all of which are destined for removal??? (It's not because they don't like them... they have been devoured in previous years.))
This was not a happy homecoming. I am still upset. (We just came home last night.) I
do not give this spray good marks.
The best spray I have seen thus far (and no spray works perfectly or lasts for longer than a week or so) is
Deer Out. I guess I will be buying more. I may also have to put up more deer fencing along the back hillside (over DH's protests) and maybe turn on at least
one of the water blaster gadgets along the creek. It will also help that our dog comes home tomorrow.
But all of this feels like closing the barn door after the horse has escaped.
Please excuse my whining....
... but I felt that I had to weigh in on this product.
