In the art of getting deers to leave your crops alone, NO method is too strange.
Forexample:
Try to really speak the language of animals, and freaking pee around your crops field.
Yes. Pee. Humans walking around, and peeing in a circle to protect their crops.
Fascinating
(Admin note: this was a tips written in SEVERAL swedish gardening magazines. Idk how many do this in reality, but like… They suggested alot. Although their suggestion was too mix human pee into water and like circle your garden with this. They said a dog peeing in the territory works too. But what if one has no dog??? I amazed at the levels people are ready to go to get deers to leave their gardens alone. Like it is possible no one actually do this, but STILL someone is clearly ready to do it when it suggested in several newspapers)
in the american south, i’ve heard of this, but kinda in reverse. so like, hunters don’t pee around where they hunt because it scares deer away.
I have 100% legit peed around my garden before. it helps.
I would imagne it does. And you are making a future archeologist happy i guess, think of all those high phosopate (idk the spelling) amounts they will be able to find in the soil!
Archeologist in sweden at least, loves finding traces of ancient human peeing spots. Like seriously, i am not even exaggarting. That is one of their main ways of provning human presence in a location. Finding ancient human peeing spots.
With circle around your garden, they can EVEN find a fascinating pee pattern, if which they can mysteries off (in this imagnation example they have somehow lost the knowledge of the “peeing around your garden” method, but still use the same archeology methods as today. Odd that… but ssshh its my imagnation).
The articles i read btw also recommended varying your “deer detergent” methods, because the deers in sweden get used to a method and loses fear of it.
Here was some of the wild suggestion of how to, 2018, make your scaring away deers “scarecrow” (were i personally have no idea which works and which do not.):
- Hang cut off human hair in different locations in the garden. Smells like you, they will perhaps avoid garden (to they get used to it
- Fake deer tail butts everywhere in garden. They might think: “oh that is another deers eating location. I must avoid!”
- Mix bone powder, animal blood, ammoniak. Take this mixture and circle it around your garden (this one was suggested as the best method
- Water your plants with a mix of human pee and water (this poor garderner really must pee alot….)
- Apply animal blood mixed with ammoniak to spots in garden
These garderners are hard core. Also of anyone is wondering, yes we also shoot the deers ofcourse, but there must be a balance were they are still allowed to exist. Like we can’t hunt and kill them all, they DO belong in the swedish fauna.
But they are…. too many. And there is an entire bunch which are way to unafraid of humans, and have started to live in the suburbs all year round (in Stockholms suburb forexample). There are almost no predators for them there.
So now we got some very cheeky dears, without any fear of humans, who have specialised themselves on eating food from human gardens. Fascinating in a way. I know them very closely, having many times while growing up, opened the door to my house in the morning and been met with an entire bunch of deers just chilling and eating our gardens
(For context sweden has for about the last 100 years had an human created inbalance between predator animals, and predators. This is why we are now drowning in deers. Because SOMEONE, aka ourselves, tried to make all predator animals exctinct in sweden about a 100 years ago)
Source
about deers in sweden and mentions some of the above methods of getting them to leave your gardens alone http://www.nrm.se/faktaomnaturenochrymden/djur/daggdjur/hovdjur/radjurochdovhjort.1382.html