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The deer started hitting my 4 year old white spruce that I planted this year. I put some branches around 'em almost as if to make a mini brush pile this weekend. At one of the forestry seminars I went to they told me the best trees grow through the tops of a clear cut b/c they are more so protected from deer. My neighbor has been having the balsams in his backyard get hit. He started sticking a stake in the ground at an angle & putting soup can on the top of the stake. It seems to help.
I would have thought it would be deer sometimes eating the tops that would do a lot of the damage but it seems to be bucks rubbing them.
Last edited by AJE; 11/13/2212:26 AM.
Re: Protecting new evergreens from deer
[Re: AJE]
#7716275 11/13/2207:21 AM11/13/2207:21 AM
Are they eating the main terminal or branches also? I planted 700 white spruce this spring, I wasn't planning on doing anything with the spruce- I just bud capped 400 white pines...
Re: Protecting new evergreens from deer
[Re: AJE]
#7716710 11/13/2205:07 PM11/13/2205:07 PM
Never saw them eating white spruce here, but they'll eat pretty much everything else...
One winter the beach deer died of starvation with full bellies of black pine needles, so if things are tough enough they'll try anything...All the repellants I've tried at the house are regarded by these deer a food enhancement.....
Re: Protecting new evergreens from deer
[Re: AJE]
#7724634 11/22/2211:37 PM11/22/2211:37 PM
. I put some branches around 'em almost as if to make a mini brush pile this weekend. At one of the forestry seminars I went to they told me the best trees grow through the tops of a clear cut b/c they are more so protected from deer. .
what your doing is a mini slash wall.
More info on slash walls
Re: Protecting new evergreens from deer
[Re: AJE]
#7727858 11/27/2201:01 AM11/27/2201:01 AM
Has any one or firm ever created a pepper type liquid that can be sprayed on trees that will slow or stop deer from eating or chewiong on? I have never heard of anything like that but they were able to develop a product that when in the plant deters cranes from eating young corn.
Bryce
Re: Protecting new evergreens from deer
[Re: AJE]
#7728327 11/27/2203:24 PM11/27/2203:24 PM
I have 33 white cedars going down the property line. At every sixth tree i push in a driveway marker. I put my old socks in the laundry hamper for about a week to absorb our human odors. I then place a sock on each marker. One set of socks on the markers another in the dirty laundry. I swap the socks out every two weeks after that. Keep doing so until well into spring. It works perfect.
AKA: Rusty Shackleford
Re: Protecting new evergreens from deer
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#7733165 12/03/2212:07 AM12/03/2212:07 AM
Lol. I don't wear them, just put those old socks with holes in them into the hamper for a week to absorb human odor. Personally, my feet don't don't stink.
AKA: Rusty Shackleford
Re: Protecting new evergreens from deer
[Re: AJE]
#7743913 12/14/2209:40 PM12/14/2209:40 PM
Try putting some cedar posts in where the deer are traveling close to the trees. We have had pretty good success getting the deer to rub the posts and not trees.
Re: Protecting new evergreens from deer
[Re: AJE]
#7743997 12/14/2211:13 PM12/14/2211:13 PM
Only 2 foolproof ways to keep deer from rubbing the trees is #1: 8 foot fence or #2: Kill the deer
What you do NOT do is remove the trees they've rubbed. They will ten to come back to most of those same trees next year and hit them again. If you take them out, they'll destroy a whole new group of trees.
Wollen nicht krank dein feind. Planen es.
Re: Protecting new evergreens from deer
[Re: AJE]
#7744215 12/15/2209:52 AM12/15/2209:52 AM
We deal with this all the time on new tree plantings. Cheapest and easiest way to prevent deer from rubbing on the trees is running a temporary electric fence alongside the trees to prevent deer from accessing them. A small solar fencer, poly wire and step-in-posts are all that’s needed. Run the fence waist height either over the top of short trees and shrubs or alongside taller trees. Many times you will have to repair fence after first couple nights as when deer touch them and get zapped they bolt thru the fence. If you really hate the deer smear a little peanut butter on the wire.