Quick Filler Flower Harvest : The DEER are Destroying My Farm : Flower Hill Farm 

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Nicole, I live in the country and the Deer use to eat everything I planted until I put an ELECTRIC fence around my garden. It's less expensive than paying for all those flowers and time you have put into it. The Deer don't even come close to the fence, I think they can hear the electric going through the fence. Good lucky with the flowers that are left. Faye

Hey Nicole, it's Brenda with Native Roots Salsa Company and Four Dogs Flower Farm. I watch you all the time and love your videos. You inspired me to start my flower farm journey back in December. I am not the originator of this idea and can't remember where I saw it, but I put a chicken wire ball in my harvest bucket for snaps and it allowed me to harvest them and keep them straight. I don't harvest nearly as much as you do, but it might be a solution.

So glad to see you back on the flower farm!! I’ve been missing these videos and your bouquet making videos!!

My first ever Dahlia and Zinnia bloomed this week (zone 5b). All thanks to your encouragement, inspiration, and videos. Seeing them brings me so much joy and I'm so proud of myself for starting something from seed/tubers. I can't wait for my Mikayla Miranda's to bloom.

Happy to see you back in the flower beds. Can't wait for a future bouquet making video. 💚💚💚💚

I have to say I think the flower farm community is amazing! How awesome other flower farmers meet up and share flowers they have in excess! What a way to make the most of the year.

I have an odd suggestion for the deer. I’ve found that the deer feed in my garden at dawn. The only thing that seems to work is going out to pick at dawn. They avoid me like the plague. I’m hoping that they will just forget about my flowers after awhile.🤷‍♀️. Good luck!🌸

I have missed you Nicole!! I love watching harvest videos. I have learned so much from all of the knowledge you share. I know you are so so busy and going through a lot. I wanted to say thanks for sharing a video - I needed to see one today for extra motivation. My flowers are starting to pop and I don’t know exactly what to do with them. Watching your videos inspired me to start my flower farm- I’m in southern Maine. Thanks for all the knowledge you share! I look forward to more videos!!!

Between the deer, groundhog, rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, and insects, it’s a tough season. I’m thankful we’re at least getting more rain than we did the past couple of summers. But those pests are no joke! Everyone is offering their deer advice and I can say that sprays help, but need to be applied regularly. I make my own to save money. I’ve also heard that a double fence, with a gap in between (look up the specs) works well because the deer realize they can’t land between them and they aren’t sure they can clear them both. That’s all I got!

After I finished watching your garden I went outside and cut some flowers from my garden and made my first bouquet of the season. My flowers were slow to start as well I was waiting for more things to be in bloom. But after watching your video I realized I had quite a number of things I could cut from. Thanks for the inspiration I hope you’re doing well.

It’s nice to see you back in your flower fields!! Hope your well!

Regarding the deer, if you don’t want to go the electric route, what about planting a border of the plants that they go for on the outside of the fence? They may just go for those and not even try to get in the fence. Actually you could even plant a inner border of strong smelling herbs that they don’t like (examples which are also perennials: wild bergamot bee balm, agastache, mint, chives, salvia, rosemary, lavender) so that that’s all they smell if they do make it to the fence. Thanks for the update, the flowers look beautiful!

Nicole, as other suggest why not put an electric fence, but put a patch of plants as food for the deer outside the fence. That way, the deer are not too oogling on your crops, but also they have something to eat 😊

Thanks Nicole. I sure hope your able to put together a vlog for us of the farmers market and you making some bouquets. The flowers are gorgeous! 🌸💚🙃

My nemesis are the rabbits this year. It's so disheartening to see beautiful seedlings that we planted out in the Spring (all started from seed) reduced to nubs in the ground when we should be harvesting the flowers right now. My zinnias took the hardest hit. Really sorry about your deer problem. Hopefully our plants will bounce back...for now I'm calling it "extreme" pinching. Good Luck!

Nicole , I want a Where's Brad Pitt shirt. 2xl. Don't care how much it is. God bless the market....keep it up up baby girl. Love you guys.

Crazy weather and now deep. Oh, Nicole, this year is a big challenge. Electric fencing may be the best bet for the deer. I read somewhere that deer fencing has to be 8’ tall so they can’t jump over it. Hope you can get rid of them.

Thank you ❤ I’m so happy to see a video from your farm, and picking flowers is my favourite ❤️ 😊 I’ve been missing those

I am sure I mentioned before that I accidentally found the deer freak when they step on small 1 foot x 1 foot pieces of chicken wire. Not saying this makes mowing easy because the chicken wire (or cattle panel) needs to be picked up at mowing time. The good news is when the chicken wire is strewn again it ends up in different spots, which fools the deer again if they reappear. Cheap fix- works great God bless

I’m amazed at how much you do Nicole, so no worries on how things look good or bad. I think it looks great and I’m just blown away that you have both the farm and the nursery going. Kudos to you and find time to breathe ❤️❤️❤️

been watching since the beginning. babe! Look how far you have come! Well done!

Nicole, Nicole, Nicole…Electric fence yes. 2 fence system. Interior fence has 3 electric lines, one at 18”, one at 36”, and one at 54 inches above the ground. The exterior fence needs to be 36” from the interior fence. The exterior fence is just one electric line that is 18” from the ground. I have run this system for 3 years now and no deer in my garden. I have an opening on one side where I can enter and exit the garden. In that space I put in a homemade tomato cage that is about 50” tall..blocks the entry and so far they have not found it as an entry point. Must keep grass trimmed around the fence of course. Inexpensive fix. Has worked fantastic for me! Much love to you and your family. Jenny

Great to see you again, The bouquet looks great!

A used netting to make a fence around my garden and a deer ARMY CRAWLED under the fence and ate all my sunflowers and a good chunk of celosia. I didn't even know they could do that. Luckily I was able to fix it but for 3 nights he fed like a king! 😂

Deer ARE jerks. Well said. That should be on a tee shirt for gardeners.

I feel your pain, sister. This is the worst year for critter damage. Plus no rain here in Minnesota. Argh! You have such a cheerful disposition about it. Thanks for the tour.

Commiserating with you on the deer pressure. They’ve eaten my lilys and just about everything else. So frustrating. 😑

Ohhh im sorry to hear about the deer. So frustrating.

You are so hard working. Sorry the deer are eating your flowers!! They are grazing on my garden too. 😖 🦌 You’ve still got amazing lovely flowers despite the annoying deer.

We use Deer Stopper and 500 feet of their nylon tape, soaked in the solution. We wrap them around tee posts about 4 feet tall. The deer don’t come within 5 feet of the tape. Spray or resoak the tape as needed.

I’ve never seen that gooseneck plant. I can easily imagine it in bouquets, it would add ‘movement’ 😊

I think things might be slow because the white plastic keeps the soil cool, so plants grow slower. Zinnias particularly like really warm soil.

We put out some solar motion lights to spook the deer and stop them from eating our garden in the fields. They don’t come right around the house but our fields are vulnerable but the motion lights have worked amazingly. Being solar you can just stick in the ground then pick them up and move them around.

@flowerhillfarm … I have been dealing with deer this summer … and I forgot my old trick of putting a radio out in the garden. I used to tuned it to an AM talk station, but this year the AM station that its tuned in on has music too … the radio has been out there for 3 or more weeks and the deer damage has completely stopped and the plants are recovering. Instant cure, but then there’s a cord to unplug and plug back in when we’re mowing, but totally worth it for me!

True and tested deer protection for my garden. Deer will not jump a fence that they can not clear. 2 ways to do that. 1) You can place a double fence 4' apart. or 2) what I do. I place my straw bales and elevated raised beds 2' away from the cattle panel fence that's only 4' tall. I have video of the deer walking by the garden to the back yard to munch on the crab apple because they can't clear my 4' fence to much on my garden.

You need to bait the electric wire with peanut butter, then make it live...once they get zapped, they will never come back to the fence, touch it, or jump over it. Another option is to make another fence, 3 ft. away from the big fence, like a moat. The won't jump both fences out of fear of getting stuck inbetween the two. My fence is only 3 ft. tall, and the deer, ground hog and rabbits raided my vegetable and flower garden every year to the ground, I installed a Solar Gallagher S20 with two strands of wire....one 6 inches above ground for ground hogs, rabbits and raccoons, the 2nd strand at a little above 30 inches. I built a high framed gate with the strands that go up and around so I can walk thru, and then installed 2x hand clamps to connect the wires across the gate when I'm not in the garden. You would think a 30 inch or so fence would not work, but no deer, raccoons, rabbits or ground hogs have been inside for 4 years! Remember, bait the live fence with peanut butter on alu-foil wrapped around the wire(s)....it worked for me, and we have a lot of deer every evening and during the night....they will not touch it anymore, jump or even get close once they got zapped. The setup is portable with 1/2" fiberglass spikes, so when I need to come inside with the tractor, I just need to pull two spikes out, I can come with the mower thru the 2x hand gates.

You amaze me!! Love watching you and you businesses grow!!

Hope you have a great day at the market, your flowers are beautiful!

I am in awe how many flowers you have growing. They look amazing! Do you ever sleep Nichole? When did you plant them all? 😊 You are amazing! I think we just had a slow start with the heat. Here is Eastern ON we had a lot of rain, and smoke. Things are slowly growing, but it is improving now. Take care Nichole! Eileen 🍁🇨🇦

Oh my gosh, I can't believe even with the fence the deer are still messing with your plants. That yarrow is gorgeous!

We have tons of deer that roam freely in my neighborhood. I plant zineas and vinca and they won’t touch either one so that’s what I plant. Plus they’re very pretty.

I’m just a home gardener but I’ve had absolutely horrendous issues with groundhogs/woodchucks this year. I’ve caught 6 so far and there’s still another one that’s still evading me. They ate probably half of my garden in a weekend. Mowed it down to bare stems. I cried and felt so sick. I’ve never had them like this before.

The voles got all of our zinnias. I feel your pain!

A lot of hard work which has produced a lot of beautiful blooms!

We had a deer problem on our property until we got our guard dogs. No more deer problems. I grew a big bed of honeywort for my bees this year. Can you show us how you use honeywort in boquets? I have bucket loads.

I've found planting basil keeps deer away. I specifically planted cinnamon basil this year. I'm thinking any basil would work. I'm pretty sure this is called companion planting to deter pest! It's worked so far. I've also heard they get scared easily of movement and noise, so motion sensor lights or water sprinklers, or even those things that twirl in the wind could help keep them off.

I live in SC & in a subdivision.. the deer ate my hydrangeas, roses & everything else! In the back I have chain link fence.. so they jump it.. I am getting a tall fence inside since I think they can’t jump 2 fences. It’s that or grow nothing, absolutely nothing! I love gardening & can’t give up on it

Zinnias took FOREVER just now starting to get blooms over here in west michigan

The only thing that worked to stop the deer from eating everything I planted was to put deer/bird netting over all of it. A 7'x100' roll is about $20 and you can't even see the net once you're a foot or more away from it.

Your flowers are just beautiful!

I love your flower fields! I've got to go back to your seed purchases and see what variety that tall orange snapdragon is...I'm a fiend for orange flowers. My favorite celosia is Apricot Brandy but I don't think they grow tall enough for cut flowers. Hope you have a great time at the market❤😊

So glad to see your beautiful face 😊❤️❤️❤️🥰

I LOVE the shirt!! Thanks so much for sharing. We are behind on things and lots of stuff is short! ☀️🌸

Yeahy so lovely to see you back on your flower farm. Love them. Looking forward to seeing the bouquets xxx

Greetings from SE Wisconsin Nicole. Great to see you today. Good luck with your upcoming flower market !

Hi Nicol nice to see you back.

I feel your pain... Deer ate all my rudbekia I started from seed this year too

Loved, loved this video! Thank you, thank you for sharing your knowledge and real life experiences. We're lucky to have you! Thanks again!

I also put up an electric fence and it helps.

Oh My! Love the shirt. Crazy growing time in zone 9b too., but happy for progress

I forgot to say you look fabulous girl!! So happy to see you are bouncing back ❤ you are such an inspiration to me and so many. Sending you so much love ❤️

I love your shirt. You’re the best! Glad to see you

I grow perennial phlox and love it! It's the weirdest thing. I "always" have white powdery mildew, I was just about to give up on it, but lo and behold, not this year. Strange. And I live in zone 7, very, very humid! Go figure? And you are in such a cool climate. So glad to see all you and all your flowers, missed you!

wow! superb

Your shirt is EPIC. I love it so much. 🤩 Sorry to hear about those darn deer. That's a bummer.

I live about 2 hours south of you and have been seriously beating myself up about how tiny my zinnias still look mid July! I guess it’s just a slower year. Thanks for showing your tiny plants so I don’t feel so alone.

You should save the mint your striping and dry it and place in little tea bags and make flower hill farm tea. Not yelling lol just a idea.

Mine also I can’t have tomatoes or green beans and the tomatoes I had thought I protected from them the crows ate. The deer also ate my rudbeckia 😢

I have japanese beetles on my statice too :( I'm so sorry about the deer damage you've had! That sounds really hard. Your snaps are looking so beautiful, though! I love the colors!

I think you need a little battery run weed wacker. So you can just throw it in the back of your 4 wheeler and go. As for the Deer...I'm thinking some kind of motion detector activated device. Perhaps even some kind pf Battery operated Halloween Decoration. May sound silly- but Deer are skittish. The Weather? Well guess we can't control everything! Peace.

Oh I love your videos ❤❤❤❤Tonya

Red cayenne pepper keeps a lot of critters away. Might have to reapply after heavy rain.

Very beautiful 😍

That shirt is fantastic!! Take all my money!! I want one! Also, idk of it is a northeast thing, but my mahogany splendor hibiscus has been super slow too. It has been a strange growing season.

The deer and bunnies have been very busy here in Central MN, been in our home for 22years and this is the first year that my ferns have gotten eaten!! I spray liquid fence- don't think it helps

Vetch is used as a cover crop, so even though it’s a weed to you, at least it’s good for the soil! 1:58

I started spraying Liquid Fence deer repellent around the perimeters off the yard and flower beds early this spring , and haven’t had a problem this year. Last year, deer ate my new irises and part of the rhizome, so I started spraying early this year. I just resprayed this morning because the oriental lilies are starting to bloom, and they have eaten them before. I hate deer!

We have had terrible rabbit pressure - especially on the rudbeckia...

Good Morning: Great tour. Ahem...the deer! I have pretty good luck deterring the vandals with electric fence. I usually use a low wire for groundhogs and a second high wire for deer. Believe it or not, a 3 foot wire will deter deer. Maybe our Delaware deer are not as tough as their New York neighbors, but it is a relatively inexpensive trial. I hope SOMETHING works for you, it is so depressing to see all those nubs.

Missing this,from Malaysia!❤❤❤

Wish I could give you a hug if that would help with your frustration about the deer.

Nicole, try cayanepepper on your plants! Grandma of the veggie boys saved her red beets with that! The deer don't like spicy :-D

7 foot vinyl deer fence is working best in KY.

Nicole you need to surround your flower fields with a double raw of fence set about 6 feet apart from each other." Living tradition homestead" did that and they didn't have dear problems at all because being double fence they can't appreciate the distance. Check them out! I hope it helps!💞🤗💞

Nicole....I just read that if you plant Four-o-Clock plants in the garden, Japanese Beetles LOVE them, but they are poisonous to them, so no more JB!

I love your shirt!

Get some bone sauce from Billy at Perma Pastures Farm. Brush the liquid on some sticks or cloth ties. Watch his videos on it. Keeps all deer and other critters away and harmless.

Have you tried hanging changing soap bars in trees...in.a pop sock...it wards them off as they can smell hoomans

Nicole, do you know where and how the deer are getting into your fenced-in flower production area? Motion-activated trail cams are fairly inexpensive and might help you decide what course of action to take as far as excluding the deer from that area. 🦌🎯Blessings to you and your loved ones, and I hope you have a wonderful weekend! ~Margie🤗💐

I'd start with a few bars of Irish Spring.

Maybe try spraying some of your blooms with bitter spray. I use it on bulbs for the voles. No one is going to taste the flowers anyway. Just wash your hands really good after handling it

I live in northern Mass and my flowers are way behind also. But yesterday I did cut two dahlias, happy dance. Wondering can you do a motion activated sprinkler to scare the deer or would that be too much strain on the well ? Thrilled at how your dahlias look.

Every gardener has successes and failures…every year! Lol, yet we keep on doing what we love. Your gardens are looking great despite the setbacks. Looking forward to your next video☺️

A scarecrow sprinkler with the motion sensor might scare the crap outta the deer.

Those stinking deer! I take my dogs out with me and they pee on perimeter. It seems to help. Plus the deer see the dogs, although the dogs have zero interest in them. Lol

Oh Nicole the weeds are Nature s joke!😄. The Deer are a pain for some people I've been blessed with none,on they are around but I have silver Ribbon around tied to lg. Poles!😄It seems to work,to figure! eeds

that shirt cracked me up 🤣

My garden at home is very successful at feeding the deer 😂😂😂

Are you able to get some tall t posts and string a row of electric wire above your deer fence ? I believe that they have solar powered ones now? 🌸💚🙃