Like most rural locations across the northeastern part of North America we have a huge white tail deer population. Seems deer love to eat Hosta. We now have hundreds of Hostas and well over forty different varieties.
In past years the deer didn't bother with our Hosta collection until fall when they were about to go dormant anyway, so we didn't care much when they browsed off the foliage. Last year they decided about the end of June to devour our collection. Luckily Hosta are very resilient and come back with out any problem the next spring. We set out to try a host of different tricks to try to keep the deer from feasting on Deb's babies. Nothing really seemed to work and this year by the middle of July half of our collection has been wiped out by these hungry critters.
On the reccomendation of a local nursery we have purchased and applied Bobbex Deer Repellent to the ones that remain untouched. The nursery claims this is a good product and I hope it is.
We will let you all know how this works and what we think of it.
We would also like to hear about any other ideas you may have. Please feel free to share your experiences good and bad with deer repellent, tricks or products.
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So far I have to say, I'm impressed. More to follow
This stuff seems to be the real deal. It claims not wash off in the rain. I believe they are right on. Two days after I applied the Bobbex Deer Repellent to our Hosta collection we had a heavy downpour and have had a couple more since. The product is still there and working great.
I'm curious to see how long this will last, but so far it is working great!
We continue to be impressed. There has been zero, zip, nothing in the way of continued munching by our deer population since applying Bobbex Deer Repellent.
Three weeks plus and the Bobbex is still doing it's job!!!!!!!!!!!!
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