Joan Mathias, Hellertown A: Joan’s home mixture focuses on deers’ extremely sensitive sense of smell. Many commercial deer repellents use the same tactics. In Joan’s mixture, it is the eggs ...

Deer are a problem for every gardener. But there are a few things we can do in our gardens to limit what they eat.

Walter patrols his yard during the day and sleeps on the porch at night. If deer enter the yard, regardless of the time, he gives chase with a basset-hound howl. Walter is a certified hunt hound ...

I have been trying for 10 years to plant flowers and such on the ground level of my home, without success ... a recipe that was given to me to make a deer repellent and it has been effective.

And this year, she says, there there’s a pandemics-worth of first-timer gardeners looking for ways to keep the hungry outdoor herbivores away from their harvest of home-grown vegetables.

The polytape live–stock electrical fencing coated with peanut butter can be effective for home gardens ... attracts deer with its bright color and peanut butter odor. Deer make nose–to ...