How to Repel Hungry Animals with Plantskydd® Repellents

They’re cute, furry and fun to watch – that is until they begin dining on your landscape. You ruled out fencing, tried scare tactics and maybe even some repellents without success. Using the right product and proper application can help you grow a beautiful and productive garden.

Horticultural expert, Melinda Myers explains how you can enjoy a beautiful garden by keeping critters at bay.

Follow Melinda Myers’ advice on protecting your garden with Plantskydd Animal Repellent so you, too, can be rewarded with a beautiful landscape and productive garden. It is effective against rabbits, deer, voles, elk, moose, chipmunks and squirrels.

Melinda Myers, horticulture expert — Melinda Myers

Melinda Myers has written more than 20 gardening books, including Small Space Gardening. She hosts The Great Courses “How to Grow Anything” DVD series and the Melinda’s Garden Moment TV & radio segments. Myers is a columnist and contributing editor for Birds & Blooms magazine and was commissioned by Tree World Plant Care Products for her expertise to write this article. Her web site is www.MelindaMyers.com.

Plantskydd is proven effective on deer, rabbits, voles, moose, elk, squirrels, and chipmunks

Deer Depredation Control Demonstration Project at Yellow River State Forest (YRSF), Allamakee County, Iowa, USA.

Submitted by Bruce Blair, Area Forester Background In the spring of 2019, staff of YRSF planted 20,000 bareroot seedlings on 31 acres of retired crop fields. (See figure 1.) The major objectives for planting these fields included: developing quality wildlife habitat, reducing forest fragmentation, improving water and air quality, reducing storm water runoff and producing… Read More

Plantskydd Repellent on Rabbit and Possums

Landcare Research – New Zealand: Rabbit and Possums Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research – New Zealand 13 July 1995 File No: 11/01/1 Enquiries to: D.R. Morgan Mr. Jeremy Suckling Newfield Marketing 123 Main South Road PO Box 11303 Christchurch 4 Dear Jeremy We have now completed preliminary pen trials of Plantskydd® against both possums and wild… Read More

CONTROLLING DEER DAMAGE IN A NEWLY-PLANTED OLIVE ORCHARD

“Based on a recommendation from another olive grower successful in deterring the deer, I decided to try Plantskydd® Repellent. To date, there have been three applications.”

Protecting New Apple Trees from Deer Damage

New Dwarf Apple Trees, 2013, 2014, 2015 We planted 101 new dwarf apple trees this year (2013) and they came out so well, we plan on putting in another 200 next year. We are in Northern Vermont and we have more than our share of deer. An orchardist friend of mine told me I’d never… Read More

Rabbit Damage to Hops Reduced with Plantskydd

Last year we experienced almost a 25% loss due to rabbit and rodent feeding. This year, with the application of Plantskydd, it was 2–3%.

Case Study: Preventing deer damage on newly planted fruit trees

“As of the beginning of September I have been seeing a lot of deer in the orchard and I have to say I’m impressed. I’m seeing the deer eat mature trees along fence rows but they’re leaving the young treated trees alone”