Home Tip of the Day: How to Keep Animals from Eating Plants

Are critters feasting on your garden? This tip will solve your plant woes with one simple ingredient.

One summer, my father declared war against the deer that visited our backyard.  The deer had impeccable taste, they loved anything that flowered.  The rose bushes and the day lilies were gone before you could say “bloom.”

Finally, my dad couldn’t take it any longer.  He constructed twelve-foot tall wire fences and threatened to take up the night watch, until finally someone suggested this surprisingly simple garden tip.  See how to keep animals from eating plants in the easy home tip below.  It only takes one ingredient!

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Victoria Keichinger

Victoria Keichinger is the Vice President, Brand Marketing for Coldwell Banker Real Estate. When she's not managing national media and advertising for the Coldwell Banker brand at work, she finds herself most at home in Jersey City, NJ with her pre-school crush turned spouse and son. A true Francophile, she loves to travel and will go anywhere there are ski slopes.