COLLEGE OF THE REDWOODS
Testimonial for the deer repellent, Plantskydd®
In the thirteen years that I have worked for the College
of the Redwoods, I have tried many remedies for the problem of browsing
deer. Most were commercially available deer repellents while some were
homemade cures ranging from soap shavings to hair swept up from a barber's
floor. Amazingly some worked, but none of them for very long, and we were
losing the battle to save our landscape from depredation so severe that
some of our trees and shrubs were in danger of dying.
In desperation, I contacted Fish and Game; they said to
put up fencing. Then, by chance, I was speaking with our local Ag Commissioner
when he told me of a new product that was supposed to be effective in
repelling deer. He also told me that this product
called Plantskydd® is so safe that is isn't even regulated by the
EPA!
I telephoned Tree World, the North American distributor
of Plantskydd®, and ordered a sample amount just to give it a try.
Wow, what results! The deer stayed completely away from those plants that
were treated, and even after weeks of rain, did not return to those plants
for over a month. I immediately ordered a larger shipment of Plantskydd®
and began a program of treating the more than two dozen species of ornamentals
that were being impacted by the deer. We've been
using Plantskydd® for almost two years now with about ninety-five
percent efficiency. We are even starting to replant species that we had
given up on as being impossible to grow in our deer infested environment.
I think that it's better than fencing!
Steve Sandeen, Head Gardener
College of the Redwoods
November 15, 2000
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