I've been doing this for my garden for years. I had a friend give me this advice when I complained about deer in my garden and eating my sun choke plants. He had been using this method for years with great success. Since then, I have a few years under my belt and I can confirm this simple and cheap method works well.
In this case, I'm moving my method to our sugar cane/sorghum field and hoping that I can convince the deer to not spend the night by laying down on my cane. The cane field provides great cover for them to hide from predators and feel safely hidden. However, they are destroying my cane in the process and I need to harvest and sell that cane this fall.
And since hunting season for modern gun is still well over a month away, I need to find alternative methods.
Here is some of the damage the deer have cause to my cane field.
You can clearly see where they have been laying down.
We will be posting updates this fall as we get closer to pressing time and show you how we cook down the cane juice into syrup. The syrup is then sold to the distillery where it will be turned into Yummy Rum and aged with charred white oak.
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