I am a hairdresser, and I can’t tell you
how many people have come in and asked for hair. That’s right
HAIR. I’ve heard several explanations why it works. -Sonja
Finck, Elizabeth City
Well, I grew up on an apple farm, and this worked well to keep the deer out of the orchard. Take a piece of bar hand soap (the trial size will do) and tie it to a branch or something about waist high off the ground. The stronger smelling the soap the better! -Tim Wiltse
I quickly became friends with my husband’s barber and asked him to save hair from haircuts. I strew the hair in my garden, thickly at row ends, and outside rows. It works! -Flo Sproles, Cherryville
When we lived in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, we had the same problems with deer and rabbits. The solution for us was: Human hair from your local beauty shop around the perimeter and blood meal that you can get from your garden center, spread in between the rows. -Pamela Stemen, Charlotte
We use an electric fence and a small charger. We keep it low to the ground. It’s been there several years, and it’s worked on deer, rabbits, coons, possums, anything. -Owlie Seawell, Moore County
Surround your garden with chicken manure. It works on deer, rabbits, chickens, coons and people. -Ryan Jordan, Lenoir
I put four or five mothballs in an onion sack, hang it from a tree about as high as a deer. You can spread them around the garden, too. -Robert Hardy, Thurmond
Take pieces of garden hose and surround the area with them. I’ve done this for 20 years, and no rabbit has ever crossed it. They hop around outside it. They must think it’s a snake. -Mark Heisey, Creston
Put up some posts and run clear fishing line. You can run it at various heights, depending what you’re trying to keep out. -Kate O’Brien, Carolina Lake
My father uses white cord at his place in Piney Creek. He actually uses strips of sheets. Deer were eating from my flower box. Moth balls, human hair – they didn’t work. Dad says, “Why don’t you try what I’ve been telling you?” So I ran some brick line and tied strips of plastic bags every two or three feet, so people don’t run into it. The deer won’t cross it. My dad has used his torn sheets for 40 years. -Nathan Thomason, Salisbury
I drove stawbs in the ground around my vegetable garden, tied twine between the stawbs and hung white plastic bags from the twine. The deer stopped eating my peas and went on down the road. -Margaret Daughtry, Beulaville
You know those motion lights? They kick on when you walk under them? I hooked up a radio that goes on when deer get near it. The sound must keep them away. Put it on whatever station YOU want to hear. Deer won’t like it. -Scott Holden, Yadkinville
Take a bar of soap, drive a stick into the ground, and put the soap on it. Ivory works good. -Wiley Roper, Scranton
One of my golfing friends, Al Engmann, recently moved into Cypress Landing. During one of our golf outings, we discussed the problem with deer eating shrubs. Al told me about a black mesh product that you place over your shrubs. I found the product in the garden center at Lowes and placed it over my azaleas. It is almost invisible in bright sunlight. After using it, I had no further problem with deer. I think it is called “deer guard” and comes various sizes and rolls. -Roger Dawson, Moores Beach
This is the Web site Jenny Lloyd and I found for Deer Off: www.deer-off.com. It has a dealer location finder and a toll free phone number: 1-800-DEER-OFF for a local dealer. -Renee Gannon, Carolina Country
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