Deer-Resistant Landscaping : Proven Advice and Strategies for Outwitting Deer and 20 Other Pesky Mammals

Deer-Resistant Landscaping: Proven Advice and Strategies for Outwitting Deer and 20 Other Pesky Mammals Neil Soderstrom The Most Comprehensive Guide Ever Published for Controlling Deer and Other Pesky Mammals Every year, homeowners throughout North America battle deer and other animals that damage and devour their garden plants. Suburban sprawl has created an ideal habitat for wildlife: These properties offer open feeding areas that are free of natural predators, are off-limits to hunters, and provide bountiful menus of tasty landscape plants, shrubs, and trees. It is a far-reaching problem that needs effective solutions. In this book you'll discover many viable strategies to deter, scare away, and limit deer and other pests in your yard and garden. Author Neil Soderstrom interviewed wildlife authorities all over the United States and culled their advice and his own experiences in upstate New York into hundreds of control options and strategies for animal pests, ranging from home remedies and simple diversions to more elaborate methods, with a humane approach encouraged at all times. You'll learn which methods work and which methods don't work, and why—all based on scientific research, the experience of landscape and wildlife-control professionals, and the author's own richly anecdotal, photo-documented observations and testing. This comprehensive guide includes: Each mammal's behavior and function in its ecosystem and the type of damage it causes throughout the year, along with maps showing each species' distribution in the United States and Canada Options for controlling 20 different garden pests with seasonally adjusted strategies, featuring repellents, frighteners, fencing, and traps Instructions on how to make effective homemade traps and fencing using repurposed tin cans, coat hangers, bike inner tubes, electrical conduit, buckets, drainpipes, and more Control tips from regional gardening and wildlife control experts coast to coast Encyclopedic coverage of more than 1,000 resistant plants—especially those least likely to be browsed or destroyed by deer, based on scientific studies and a consensus of gardening authorities from all regions Stunning wildlife photography featuring deer and pest behaviors as well as do-it-yourself solutions, deterrents, and control products Discussion of live-trapping versus lethal trapping, relative to property damage, health risks, and state law Clues for identifying which culprits are at work, based on damage to plants, buildings, vehicles, and fencing, as well as tracks, scat, burrows, and nests (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22824433-deer-resistant-landscaping?ac=1&from_search=true) 368 pages Published February 3rd 2009 by Rodale About the Author NEIL SODERSTROM is a freelance author, editor, photographer, book producer, and author agent specializing in photo-illustrated articles and books for adults and kids. He has published countless articles in national magazines and his gardening photos regularly appear in books and magazines such as Horticulture , Fine Gardening , Country Living , Family Circle , and Mother Earth News . He lives in Wingdale, New York. ## Deer-Resistant Landscaping: Proven Advice and Strategies for Outwitting Deer and 20 Other Pesky Mammals ## Neil Soderstrom **The Most Comprehensive Guide Ever Published for Controlling Deer and Other Pesky Mammals** Every year, homeowners throughout North America battle deer and other animals that damage and devour their garden plants. Suburban sprawl has created an ideal habitat for wildlife: These properties offer open feeding areas that are free of natural predators, are off-limits to hunters, and provide bountiful menus of tasty landscape plants, shrubs, and trees. It is a far-reaching problem that needs effective solutions. In this book you'll discover many viable strategies to deter, scare away, and limit deer and other pests in your yard and garden. Author Neil Soderstrom interviewed wildlife authorities all over the United States and culled their advice and his own experiences in upstate New York into hundreds of control options and strategies for animal pests, ranging from home remedies and simple diversions to more elaborate methods, with a humane approach encouraged at all times. You'll learn which methods work and which methods don't work, and why—all based on scientific research, the experience of landscape and wildlife-control professionals, and the author's own richly anecdotal, photo-documented observations and testing. This comprehensive guide includes: Each mammal's behavior and function in its ecosystem and the type of damage it causes throughout the year, along with maps showing each species' distribution in the United States and Canada Options for controlling 20 different garden pests with seasonally adjusted strategies, featuring repellents, frighteners, fencing, and traps Instructions on how to make effective homemade traps and fencing using repurposed tin cans, coat hangers, bike inner tubes, electrical conduit, buckets, drainpipes, and more Control tips from regional gardening and wildlife control experts coast to coast Encyclopedic coverage of more than 1,000 resistant plants—especially those least likely to be browsed or destroyed by deer, based on scientific studies and a consensus of gardening authorities from all regions Stunning wildlife photography featuring deer and pest behaviors as well as do-it-yourself solutions, deterrents, and control products Discussion of live-trapping versus lethal trapping, relative to property damage, health risks, and state law Clues for identifying which culprits are at work, based on damage to plants, buildings, vehicles, and fencing, as well as tracks, scat, burrows, and nests 368 pages Published February 3rd 2009 by Rodale ## About the Author **NEIL SODERSTROM**is a freelance author, editor, photographer, book producer, and author agent specializing in photo-illustrated articles and books for adults and kids. He has published countless articles in national magazines and his gardening photos regularly appear in books and magazines such as __Horticulture__, __Fine Gardening__, __Country Living__, __Family Circle__, and __Mother Earth News__. He lives in Wingdale, New York.

Every year, before they decide to take defensive action, vulnerable homeowners throughout North America suffer expensive damage as deer and various other pesky mammals devour their gardens and landscape plants. Deer-Resistant Landscaping arms homeowners with the proven strategies they need to repel and combat deer and 21 other troubling pests, from armadillos, chipmunks, and gophers to rabbits, raccoons, skunks, and squirrels.

Outstanding features include:

- strategies for every season and every size pest— from simple, low-cost home remedies, scare tactics, and deterrents to live trapping, barriers, and community action procedures suitable for more intense problems

- interviews with and tips from regional gardening and wildlife control experts from coast to coast

- encyclopedic coverage of more than 1,000 resistant plants—especially those least likely to be grazed upon or destroyed by deer, based on scientific studies and a consensus of gardening authorities throughout the continent

- stunning full-color wildlife photography featuring deer and pest behaviors as well as solutions and deterrents

With more than 400 of the author’s own gorgeous wildlife photos as well as ones by the legendary naturalist Dr. Leonard Lee Rue III, the most published wildlife photographer in North America, Deer-Resistant Landscaping provides the most wide-ranging, authoritative, and helpful information on this topic ever assembled in one volume.

Every year, before they decide to take defensive action, vulnerable homeowners throughout North America suffer expensive damage as deer and various other pesky mammals devour their gardens and landscape plants. Deer-Resistant Landscaping by Neil Soderstrom arms homeowners with the proven strategies they need to repel and combat deer and 21 other troubling pests, from armadillos, chipmunks, and gophers to rabbits, raccoons, skunks, and squirrels. Outstanding features include: • strategies for every season and every size pest—from simple, low-cost home remedies, scare tactics, and deterrents to live trapping, barriers, and community action procedures suitable for more intense problems • interviews with and tips from regional gardening and wildlife control experts from coast to coast • encyclopedic coverage of more than 1,000 resistant plants—especially those least likely to be grazed upon or destroyed by deer, based on scientific studies and a consensus of gardening authorities throughout the continent • stunning full-color wildlife photography featuring deer and pest behaviors as well as solutions and deterrents With more than 400 of the author's own gorgeous wildlife photos as well as ones by the legendary naturalist Dr. Leonard Lee Rue III, the most published wildlife photographer in North America, Deer-Resistant Landscaping provides the most wide-ranging, authoritative, and helpful information on this topic ever assembled in one volume. Every year, before they decide to take defensive action, vulnerable homeowners throughout North America suffer expensive damage as deer and various other pesky mammals devour their gardens and landscape plants. Deer-Resistant Landscaping by Neil Soderstrom arms homeowners with the proven strategies they need to repel and combat deer and 21 other troubling pests, from armadillos, chipmunks, and gophers to rabbits, raccoons, skunks, and squirrels. Outstanding features - strategies for every season and every size pest from simple, low-cost home remedies, scare tactics, and deterrents to live trapping, barriers, and community action procedures suitable for more intense problems - interviews with and tips from regional gardening and wildlife control experts from coast to coast - encyclopedic coverage of more than 1,000 resistant plantsespecially those least likely to be grazed upon or destroyed by deer, based on scientific studies and a consensus of gardening authorities throughout the continent - stunning full-color wildlife photography featuring deer and pest behaviors as well as solutions and deterrents With more than 400 of the author's own gorgeous wildlife photos as well as ones by the legendary naturalist Dr. Leonard Lee Rue III, the most published wildlife photographer in North America, Deer-Resistant Landscaping provides the most wide-ranging, authoritative, and helpful information on this topic ever assembled in one volume. After moving into our present New York farmhouse in 1988, Hannelore and I broke ground for a 20 x 200-foot garden plot. There we planted vegetables, herbs, and berries that flourished in the rich sandy loam, further enriched by goat manure we bartered for. Plants in the first two years suffered virtually no insect damage and no damage from deer or other mammals, even though the garden had no fence.In the spring of our third year, Hannelore offered garden samples to the chef at our regionally famous Drover's Inn. The chef liked those samples and brought the inn owner to inspect the garden. Both enthusiastically invited Hannelore to begin weekly deliveries.However, before departing, the inn's owner inquired, "Don't you have deer trouble?""Not yet.""You will!"Indeed, we were naive to the potential for damage by deer and other mammals. Luckily for us, the previous owners had planted mainly deer-resistant ornamentals near the house.Actually, our first problems began when raccoons destroyed our corn patch the night before our planned harvest. The following spring, four woodchucks caused havoc before being dealt with. That summer, voles wiped out our potato crop. Even though deer had discovered our daylilies near the house and our yew bushes along the foundation, they hadn't yet learned to recognize our vegetables as food. In this book, you'll discover many viable strategies to deter, scare away, and limit deer and other pests in your yard and garden. Author Neil Soderstrom interviewed wildlife authorities all over the United States and culled their advice and his own experiences in upstate New York into hundreds of control options and strategies for animal pests, ranging from home remedies and simple diversions to more elaborate methods, with a humane approach encouraged at all times. You'll learn which methods work and which methods don't work, and why - all based on scientific research, the experience of landscape and wildlife-control professionals, and the author's own richly anecdotal, photo-documented observations and testing.--COVER Deer Outwitting mammals Armadillos (officially: nine-banded armadillos) Bears (black bears) Beavers and muskrats Chipmunks Gophers (pocket gophers) Moles Opossums, Virginia Peccaries, Collared (Javelinas) Porcupines Rabbits and hares Raccoons Rats and mice Skunks Squirrels (ground) Squirrels (tree) Voles Woodchucks and marmots Communicable diseases and parasites Introduction to deer-resistant plants profiles Deer-resistant plants Resistant plants profiled. With more than 400 of the author?s own gorgeous wildlife photos as well as ones by the legendary naturalist Dr. Leonard Lee Rue III, the most published wildlife photographer in North America, Deer-Resistant Landscaping provides the most wide-ranging, authoritative, and helpful information on this topic ever assembled in one volume. --publisher Outlines strategies for protecting gardens and landscaping from deer and twenty-one other kinds of wildlife, in a guide that draws on expert advice to counsel readers on a variety of deterrents while providing encyclopedic entries on more than one thousand resistant plants. Original. 25,000 first printing.