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

Plantskydd – Operational Field Trials

Protecting tree seedlings from deer November 10, 2008 By Kyle Asplund, Itasca County Soil & Water Conservation District With scent/fear-based browse repellants such as Plantskydd becoming the “new wave” in animal browse repellants, Mike Oja and I set out last fall to see if the large move from bud caps to Plantskydd is the right… Read More

Plantskydd Has a Proven 12 Year Record Controlling Deer & Elk Damage

Plantskydd Deer Repellent has been an important silviculture tool within our Company’s reforestation program for over 12 years.

Pre-Treating seedlings at Nursery with Plantskydd® Animal Repellent

The combined application cost of Plantskydd product, and labor, was $0.015/seedling (1.5 ¢) when treating seedlings at the nursery, approximately 1/10th that of treating seedlings folllowing planting (15 ¢/seedling). Download Report – 6.5 MB .PDF Document

Other Field Trials with Plantskydd

DEER We operate a Christmas Tree Farm in Eastern New York State.We have used Plantskydd® for two winters and it has proven effective in preventing deer browsing.We apply in November with back-pack sprayers, spraying smaller non-saleable trees. This procedure seems to prevent all penetration in the blocks of trees. – Fred Battenfeld F.W. Battenfeld & Sons… Read More

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® effectively reduced browsing of conifer seedlings by both deer and elk

An Evaluation of Chemical Repellents and Vexar Bud Caps to Reduce Winter Deer and Elk Browsing on Conifer Seedlings in Northern Idaho Brian W. Moser, Potlatch Corporation, Lewiston, ID ABSTRACT: Wintering deer and elk can cause extensive browsing damage to forest plantations. This study was undertaken to identify the cost-effectiveness of two repellents (Plantskydd and… Read More