Scott, I buy the stakes, clips and ribbons there, but continue to use their original “Deerstopper” concentrate repellent with success from https://www.animalstoppers.com/deer-stopper . This company purchased another company and relabeled the purchased product Deerstopper II, which I haven’t used nor the Plotsaver branded repellent. Is it all the same as other repellents? I don’t sell the snakeoil. I can only say that this has worked so far for me. I put it up around Halloween or Thanksgiving and take down for the first mow. I may spot spray out of a tank May-June, but get a reprieve from the deer somewhat until fall. I guess they have plenty of other things to eat elsewhere. I will tell you this, I had tried other big box repellents, coyote urine etc…maybe my success has been the precise height, tape color, dumb local deer, I don’t know, not going to question my methods at this time. All I know is how I felt when I saw the damage and how long it took those trees to recover or years lost from replacing. It is a cost of my orcharding and it gets shipped to my door UPS almost next day from NJ. Maybe just buy a small kit and give it a whirl next fall. I haven’t tried their other products so I can’t vouch for them.
This could bring up a question of whether or not my herds have been trained to avoid my plots long enough to allow me to take the fence down 5-6 months and the spot spraying a reminder. When snow is on the ground and they are hungry around here, there have been years that they will take on the pines and cedars that are unsprayed and clean them from ground to top of their browsing height. Blah, blah, blah, I am beginning to ramble… When that barrier is up, I have zero deer issues.
Chad
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