Deer StopperII Garden Animal Repellent - Safe & Effective, All Natural Food Grade Ingredients; Repels Deer Elk, and Moose; Easy to Use, 32 fl. oz. Liquid Concentrate

If you have a consistent deer problem, you likely have tried several products or methods of deterring deer from treating your shrubs and flower beds as their own personal salad bar.First off, I want to say I believe that a starving deer will eat just about any green it can. I have a few junipers that are painful just to touch, and I can only imagine trying to chew on one or ingest it. However, during a very harsh winter, I have seen the deer chomp away at these plants which they normally avoid. In that situation, nothing short of preventing them access to your property will work.I have found success with several deer repellant products. I think the important thing is not always the product itself but timing. Here's what I mean. If the local stores sell you Product A, that means all your neighbors are buying that same repellent. So, for a short while it might be effective, but eventually the deer have to eat, and they become used to the odor, etc. So if you keep using the same product year after year, or even if its new to you, but has been sold by your local stores for some time, you may have mixed results.So what I typically do is I go to my local hardware store and see what they sell, and I check with my Home Depot to see what they stock. Then I go to Amazon.com and buy something different, naturally something with good reviews!Anyway, back to Deer Solution. The product comes in a jug containing 32 ounces of concentrated formula. It is advertised as covering 10,000 square feet. By following the mixing instructions (1 part solution, 9 parts water) you will make about 2 ½ gallons of the repellent. I find I use about 80 ounces of spray (8 ounces of solution, 72 ounces of water) for one full application on my property. That's to spray about 60 small ground cover plants/flowers, about a dozen perennial flowers, and 40 large shrubs. I respray if we have more than one heavy rain, or once I see new growth/buds. Lacking rain, I spray about every 3 weeks.I have found Deer Solution to be effective. It may be no more effective than other similar products, as the basis for most of these is egg solids in various stages of rotting. But what is nice about Deer solution is it has a heavy cinnamon scent. So when you spray it, you will actually notice the scent of cinnamon on larger shrubs near your doorways, etc. It has no nasty odor!Like most repellent, Deer Solution is not cheap. If you want to experiment, you make actually make your own repellent at home. Fill a gallon jug with a raw, beaten egg and water. Initially the egg need not be rotten, but keep refilling the jug after you spay, adding an egg when you refill. The egg will rot and it will smell pretty bad, but it will typically deter deer. You will need to respray frequently if it rains, but the cost is low so you still may spend less than a pre-made product.I am not suggesting you do this instead of buying Deer Solution, just making an observation about what one can do at home with simple ingredients. If you want something effective but very pleasant smelling, go with Deer Solution.

We’ve watched deer walk by, sniff the plant and leave when they’ve ate them in the past. I do spray about every 10 days as there is lots of new growth on my shrubs right now. Thankful for this easy to use and nice smelling product.

This spray really works .It has successfully kept deer from eating my hosta plants. I would reccommend.

Using Deer Stopper 2 is the only peace of mind I have against a small herd of seven deer, plus new offspring. The product has improved its odor and still seems to repel deer. I did start super early in the spring, and kept reapplying after hard rainfall, which this year was almost constant! Although I spent more money on this product than in previous years, I have had better results by being diligent. I just had gotten so disgusted by being controlled by these deer, as well as being concerned about deer ticks. I also paired this product with the available tape offered by the same company. That was a win-win for my yard and myself.

I have used regular Deer Stopper for years and it works very well. We have a large yard with a few dozen hosta and lots of daylilies and the deer love to eat those. Deer Stopper has always been a great product. When I saw this Deer Stopper II I thought, great! Smells better, second version...must be better overall. It's not!! I spray it as frequently (more than the label recommends) as the original Deer Stopper and a few weeks ago, there was nibbling on the hosta and daylilies. I thought...ok, I didn't spray enough so I gave it a really good spray. As of this week we have nearly half the hosta eaten and no daylilies at all.Very disappointed in Deer Stopper II. The rest of the quart is going in the garbage and I have ordered the regular Deer Stopper once again. Don't waste your money on this stuff. Use the original. Deer Stopper II is an epic failure. EPIC!

I have always used the original Deer Stopper with great results. I have not used this new version yet so I cannot comment on its effectiveness but the cinnamon scent is certainly more pleasant in the event you get some overspray on yourself.

Keep deer from eating even deer resistant plants.

This product is the ONLY thing that will keep the deer from eating all my plants. Granted it will keep out the moose & elk, but that's something I don't have on my property! Ha! Ha! Deer? Absolutely! Highly recommended this product to many of my friends