I know I'm a little late to the party here, but l had problems with deer and rabbits eating my Lillies. I grated the soap with a cheese grater the sprinkled it directly on the flower and around the base. The first time was mid-summer and it did help a bit. The following year, I spread the soap early in the spring just as plants were emerging and that seems to have helped the process. My assumption is that if you spoil the spot for them early, they're less likely to come back later. I've got a juicy buffet of fat Lillies growing wild in a particularly vulnerable spot that have remained untouched. I just went and spread some more today (Mid June) for good measure, so we'll see how it goes. Hope this helps.....
Nice video! They didn't eat out of the PVC! I have Lilly plants which the deer love. I staked I.S. near the plants and saw that the deer ate the one farthest from the soap, but not the ones closer. I think it works! would love to see you put it on the ground too. Thanks!
I had an aggressive mommy with her fawn in my yard chasing my cat and snorting at me in a rural area. I put it around the house and along the fence line. It did work for me keeping deer out. If you have a farm with a feeder or salt block, the soap doesn't work. 🐀🐾
It isn't that deer have no sense of smell as they HATE the smell of peppermint. I also noticed that after you put the soap there, the deer did not eat out of the chicken feeder you have under the deck.
I agree. I didn’t see the deer eat out of it like before the soap. What I saw is sniffing around it and laying down by it. So I wouldn’t call the experiment a failure based on that limited footage.
Nice Review, and I absolutely agree with you. Not only did they not avoid it, it attracted skunks that love eating it :) Wishing you all the best! I have a whole box of Irish spring soap... set for life apparently. BTW, woodchucks also don't care if it's there or not.
3D fence works, but deer are like the velociraptors in the movie Jurassic Park. They test the fence all the time to see if it's working. If an electric gate is left down, fence is shorted to ground, battery issue or the fence quits working for any reason the deer will be in your orchard in a heartbeat to munch on all the new growth.
I heard other videos say that you should put the soap in socks 🧦 (which I imagine would eventually concentrate the smell especially with moisture in the air or rain) or to grate it which makes the smell stronger. 🤷🏻♀️
Just an observation The deer was all up in it before the soap…. After the soap it didn’t put its mouth up in it at all, just in the ground around it. I’d say there’s some truth to the soap experiment from watching your video
@@pinemeadowshobbyfarmafruga8319 I once watched an adult squirrel climb up a pole supporting my husband’s “bird condo” apartments and the squirrel suddenly jumped off the pole halfway up the pole. Had two small pouches of soap draped across the top! Some say it doesn’t work. I say it does! But baby squirrels haven’t developed their sense of smell so they will climb the pole. Soap also brought a halt to squirrels running across the top of our privacy fence. If I see a younger squirrel running the fence, I call it names…”squirrel! Squirrel! All that said, garden fencing constructed around my raised beds of bell peppers, herbs, onions and marigolds have saved those plants from rabbits and squirrels. My husband had built three waist-high beds that we hope will help protect our fall veggies from deer. I’ve been propagating marigolds I’m hopes they will deter deer. Have read about other flowers that will do the same.
I know this is an old article but the soap did not work at all. The deer sniffed the soap and grazed wherever there wasn’t any . You can’t cover everything after all in grated soap!
I think if you would have shaved it up and sprinkled it all through the bottom area of your deck.. it would have deterred them from going forward onto the feed... I would do that experiment next..
It looks to have worked. She didn't stick her nose in the feeder she only ate what was on the ground. The other deer were fighting over the spout of the feeder.
Thank you for this! I was wondering if it really worked because I need to keep the deer out of my garden. Well I won't waste my money on the soap idea.
I have 100 herbobodies bushes that say otherwise. lol I have this plan that I haven’t executed yet that I hope works. I am going to paint small bird houses put a mesh door on them add additional holes that birds can’t get through but add additional venting for smell to come out! Take custom made tarp circles to put on the top of the bird houses and then put the Irish spring and sage inside the bird houses and wire tie them to my tall hedges and hope the smell repells the deer because 6 feet of bushes are eaten on 100 bushes
What I saw is that the deer didn’t go into the feeder and only ate the food on the floor instead of going into the feeder . The behavior was definitely different.
I honestly believe it wouldn’t work because it’s at their destination. Maybe if it was hung a few feet away where the wind can carry the scent they wouldn’t risk it as much. It’s the same concept as to when they figure out your deterrent isn’t a harm they will bypass it. That’s exactly what they did in this video. Realized the scent wasn’t any harm and ate just a few inches away.
human hair works too. go to a salon. My mother was a stylist for years and people would come by wanting the cut hair to go in their gardens to repel deer.
@@pinemeadowshobbyfarmafruga8319 thanks 🙏 I bought a solar “red glowing eyes,” scary face, that scared everyone’s dogs and the deer 🦌 I always have a plan B. They were out of regular scent. Maybe everyone’s using it for deer. 😂😂
Thank you for saving me the trouble of setting up the camera only to be disappointed.. This morning I went out with a cheese grater and two bars of Irish spring and I shredded the bars around on the walking trails of the garden area hoping to fit the smell would offend the deer but I haven't checked to see if it works
