Beginner Gardening: Issues with deer, 4 by jamibad

jamibad wrote:
haha, I have bear and deer, and I'll add my 2 cents! I did buy a scare crow water thinging! I think it's working!!!! It's activated when something walks in front of it, and squirts a high dose of water,( 30ft) it's laughable, but after a bear got into my garden and I researched it, this seemed to be the ideal thing. I read all the reviews, which were good, the videos that people left, to the effectiveness of the scare crow were hilarious, I had to give it a try. I'm going to buy 2 more!!! Yes, I feel it works, I got mine from Amazon for $50+ dollars, it's easy to set up, it shoots a high powered stream of water, up to 30 feet, for 4 seconds, would scare anything from entering your garden. Plus it has some noise to it, so when it goes off ,if your windows are open you'll here it, sph sph sph, sounds like a garden sprinkler system, only louder because of the strength of the stream of the water. My hubby heard it one night a 4 in the morning, till he got up and looked out the window, what ever it was that set it off, was gone. Now I want to set up a video camera, motion activated, to see the action when it happens.

This is a must have for anyone who has animals where you don't want them, harmless, but yet, it works!!! You can set it for any height, and for a distance up to 30 foot. The eye is a 90 degree eye, so depending on where you set it up, you may need 2. For small animals, you set the eye lower to the ground, for deer and bear you set the eye higher, after getting spooked by this several times, the animal in question will stop coming around, it has no idea what's going on! And, the scare crow runs on a 9 volt battery, and your hose. They say to buy a timer, we didn't we just hook the hose up at the end of the day, and than in the morning, unhook it, and use the hose as any other normal day would see fit. Here are some picture's of our's. We live up against a nature preservve, and I have 2 gardens, 1 with 3 raised beds, fenced in, and in another part of our yard, another fenced in area!!

Check the picture's out! I some how erased the pictures that showed it in action as My hubby was running around the enclosed garden, it will shoot a stream of water from where it's sitting clear to the back of my garden, a heavy stream of water, my beds are 9' long, another 3' in front and 3' in back of them, so the fenced in area is about 15', the scarecrow sits about 4 foot from the fence, facing the woods, that's the first picture, and the start of the woods is approx. 5' from the back side of the fence, the deer and the 2 bears we know for sure live in these woods come and go using the right side of our garden, I always look for poop from either of them, lol, This thing is awesome, for real, and no, I don't sale them or have anything to gain from promoting them! I just hope it works. The bear got into our garden 2 weeks ago, ( no damage done other than bending the fence) and the deer won't jump in if they know they can't jump out, I ordered this a day later, he/she bear hasn't been back! YET! I also hang strips of old bedding sheets on my fence, and spray the strips every other night with a strong smelling perfume, bears have a strong sense of smell, and believe me this perfume stinks, not saying what kind it is, expensive for sure given to me as a gift, lol, I found a use for it! I also thinks it keeps the animals away. Anyway, I hope this helps any one reading this. I've had the scarecrow for a week, we shall see how well it works in my garden, and like I said I'm buying another, my yard is quite big, and I have another area to defend. It's got a 9 foot fence on 1 side, and a regular 5' chain link fence on the other side,( was to be my doggy run till I decided to plant there too ) the garden is about 8 foot wide and about 30 feet long. Nothing has disturbed this garden yet, but I have sweet corn planted there, so a second scare crow will keep my neighbors out, hopefully. see the last picture!
I'll be the first to say no, it's not working, but at this time, nothing has invaded my garden, not even my own dogs.

This message was edited Apr 13, 2013 11:48 PM