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

Comparative Evaluation of Plantskydd® and Treeguard©

Plantskydd helps rebuild forests, restore ecosystems and protect waterways

 TimberWest In late August 1997, TimberWest – Sandspit Division, British Columbia, received and planted 520-550 hotlift cedar 415 D plugs. We open planted these trees with three different treatments: Control (no treatment) – 100 trees Treeguard© – 225 trees Plantskydd® – 225 trees All trees were fertilized with a SCHIRP teabag. The Plantskydd® and Treeguard©… Read More

Pre-treating Seedlings at the Nursery with Plantskydd® Animal Repellent

Plantskydd can be applied at the nursery without adversely affecting the seedlings. Application costs are approximately 1/10th of field applications.” Read Publication: Pre-treating_Seedlings_at_the_Nursery_with_Plantskydd_Animal_Repellent Acknowledgements Bob Merrell, Manager, Nursery Services – Coast Laughlan Glen, RPF, Seedling and Reforestation Specialist – Surrey Bussell Brewer, RPF, Practices Forester, BC Timber Sales, Powell River Darryl Reynolds, Wildlife Biologist, Sunshine Coast Jamie Farrer, Production Superintendent, PRT Claude Boisvert, President, Plantskydd Products – Sunshine Coast

Slocan Field Trial

Slocan Forest Products Ltd. Vavenby Division, Vavenby, BC March 29, 1999 To Whom it May Concern Slocan Forest Products Vavenby Division has been an industry cooperator for the field trials of Plantskydd® since 1996. We treated blocks that were severely impacted by deer browse. At the time approx. 100,000 seedlings per year experienced considerable damage… Read More

Pre-treating Seedlings at the Nursery with Plantskydd® Animal Repellent

“Plantskydd can be applied at the nursery without adversely affecting the seedlings. Application costs are approximately 1/10th of field applications.”

Reducing Deer Damage in 25 Acre Demonstration Vineyard Using Plantskydd Deer Repellent Spray

“After the first application, deer browsing essentially stopped, and deer tracks could still be seen all over the property.”

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

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