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Lexington,IN

Besides fencing, does anyone have a good way to keep the deer out of sweet corn? Between them and the racoons I had none last year. They seem to wipe it out when you are giving it another day or two to finish out. Maybe the only option is to plant enough for me and the deer/coons...

4/8/2010 11:30:57 PM

Long Island,New York

If you plant more that will just allow for more deer, more coons....and squirrels. Another idea would be to settle for the corn as a side dish served with venison steaks or a good coon stew...I think Paul F has a nice recipie for coon ear stew.

4/9/2010 6:40:57 AM

ExtremeVegetables.com

Milorganite, never tried it but I've been told this works well at keeping deer out.

Put a dog back there.

4/9/2010 7:06:29 AM

Burton, Ohio

I use an electric fence around my corn patch. It cost me around $70 for a charger and a spool of wire but that will last me a long time. Good investment.

4/9/2010 1:09:17 PM

Okla

click click> BANG

4/9/2010 1:14:45 PM

Arden, NC

I'm partial to shooting them...but if that's not possible and you can get power to your corn patch set up an electric fence and give the deer coons a little adversion training. You can do this by coating the strands at deer head height with a little peanut butter. Deer LOVE peanut butter but once they lick and get "BIT" they tend to stay way away. Do the same for the ground level wire where the coons will go in. All that other stuff....scents, irish spring soap, ammonia works for one or two nights then they figure out your corn is still their dinner!

4/10/2010 10:51:33 PM

Nicholls Georgia

30-06.........lol

4/11/2010 7:16:06 AM

Topsfield, Ma.

Radio set to all nite talk show suuposed to keep 'em weary say some local farmers? For my small 1200 sq ft AG patch electric fencing has been the answer!

4/11/2010 7:05:30 PM

Sparta, NC

They die of lead poison here

4/11/2010 7:30:44 PM

Owensboro, Ky.

Small bit of advice...turn power off b4 coating wires w/ pnut butter!!! Ouch!!! Peace, Wayne

4/13/2010 12:35:04 AM

West Chazy,N.Y.

I used a 220v 4 stranded fence to keep out the coons here,they never came back !

5/7/2010 5:35:17 AM

Farmville, Virginia (mfowler@hsc.edu)

If you have a fence around your patch get a bunch of strips of cloth and soak them in dish detergent and tie them along the fence about a yard or so apart. For some reason they hate the smell. A friend of mine planted a game patch in "Biologic" which is a big deer attractant last year for the deer. He started having problems with them coming into the patch eating the plants when they were only a few inches tall. In order to keep them away from the patch until the plants matured he drove stakes in the ground around the patch and ran a strand of string all the way around and used the cloth strip/detergent method. No deer entered the patch until he took the fence down in the fall.

5/21/2010 7:48:40 PM

Farmville, Virginia (mfowler@hsc.edu)

You may have to re-apply the detergent every few weeks.

5/21/2010 7:49:18 PM

Ohio

If lead is not available, I'd go with an electric fence, it keeps out all kinds of critters. Mine is solar powered so I don't need electric for it. I like the peanut butter idea, I didn't think of enticing them to touch it.

5/22/2010 12:22:13 AM