How do i stop the deer from eating my sunflowers?

Question

I have sunflowers right by my house and the deer keep eating them

Answer 1

You can actually buy coyote urine at some garden shops.  You can get little plastic vials, pour the urine in them, and place them around your garden (do this outside--it smells HORRIBLE!).  Since coyotes are predators, deer, rabbits, and other "critters" will avoid the area like the plague.  

Answer 2

We put up an electric fence... it doesn't really give a SHOCK but they steer away from it... also moth balls I heard work well.

Answer 3

someone told me that sprinkling human  urine around the area would work, or I saw in a movie that they put hair clippings onto a field where they were trying to get grass to grow

Answer 4

Land mines

Answer 5

Try and get some human hair from a barbers/hairdresser and put into a pair of tights and hang from the plants. Even when it has rained the smell remainss for a few month. Usually deer only eat newsucculentt plants, once they are older they do not touch them anymore. Good Luck

Answer 6

Get in touch with the local Game Warden or Game Conservation office and ask for a couple of bottles of "Hinder".  It's a liquid that smells like ammonia, and it will keep them clear of the sunflower plants.  I wouldn't put it directly on the sunflowers themselves if you're planning to eat the seeds!

Answer 7

Fences are the only way that worked for me. I've tried repellents with no success.

Answer 8

tie a strip of fabric softener sheet to the plants they are eating

they won't like the smell.

there are a lot of other things you can do.

but right by the house

the smell of the sheets

won't gross you out like some other common deer repellents

--- blood meal, human hair, dog p**p, coyote urine

>>>>>> ick.