Liquid Fence Deer & Rabbit Repellent Concentrate, 1-gal

I’ve used this product for three years now. During that time I haven’t had any deer damage to my gardens, except for late in the season after I had stopped spraying Deer Mace. Normally deer damage is heavy on my property. Last summer was extremely rainy, and so I had to respray more often, but normally its effectiveness is long lasting.This product does not have the gross, rotten egg smell of other repellents I’ve used. A+ and worth the money.

I have tried several deer and rabbit repellents and this by FAR is the best product I have purchased. It really works. It is expensive, requires repeated applications after it rains, and it attracts dogs like crazy.Our landscaping was constantly being chomped down by both rabbits and deer enjoying their free "salad bar" fix daily. After the first application that ceased abruptly.The odor is strong but fades after a day. Please do NOT get any of this on your shoes while spraying...the smell will not come out of a sneaker unless you hose it down. We have dedicated old sneakers we use while spraying and leave those sneakers in the garage.The attraction of this product to dogs is a tad annoying. Dogs love this stuff, roll around in it, mark their territory and come back time after time to do so. We do not have any dogs, so if you do...be aware this might be the case for you. Still it is worth it as without this product my landscaping would have been chomped down to the ground!You must be vigilant and re-apply after any significant rain to achieve optimal results. We also felt it imperative to apply this more often than needed in the early days of using this product hoping it would "train" the deer and rabbits to stay clear of our property. That really worked. It is quite entertaining and funny to see the deer slowly saunter off to my neighbor's yard after standing far away from our plants without a single chomp. This is the first year in a very long time I have seen my variegated Liriope growing in winter (a favorite of both deer and rabbits) which would have been totally eaten to the roots by now without this spray. Both deer and rabbits are very plentiful in my neighborhood.I waited 2 months before writing this review to be sure it is still working to keep the deer and rabbits away! It DOES!ON another note, I am trying the Granular version of this product along with this concentrate hoping to easy the need for repeated liquid applications. All the effort is worth it-- as this saved our landscaping big time.THANK YOU Liquid Fence!!

My wife is a master gardener, and our property is plagued with tick-carrying deer that love to eat her gardens. We have tried many products and home remedies over the years, and this is the best, by far. Yes, it is costly, but it is worth every penny. Prior to using this, for years I applied a well-known product made from dried, powdered pig blood. It was marginally effective, didn't last, and was very difficult to mix. It would also clog my sprayer frequently with blood clots. It would smell awful when mixing and after application. It would also leave dark brown [blood] spots on the plants.Speaking of smelling awful, this product also smells awful, but the odor dissipates within a day or so. It appears to last somewhere between a couple of weeks and a month, so you do need to re-apply it regularly. It comes as a concentrate that is about the consistency of heavy cream. 12.8 oz or so mix into a total of 1 gallon water. It mixes very easily, makes a small amount of foam, and has no clots or clogging issues. If you mix it indoors, the smell is pretty nasty, but doesn't last very long. I have to say that the nasty smell is more visceral than olfactory - it's almost like it makes me feel ill to smell it, even though the smell itself is not overpowering. Very subjective, your mileage may vary. One gallon of concentrate will make about 10 gallons of ready to use.I'v posted pics of the gardens we are protecting.So here's the bottom line - this stuff is easy to mix and use, works well, and lasts. The best repellent I have found, in many years of trying, to keep the deer from eating our plantings. I recommend buying a small amount of concentrate, and see how it works for you.

We have a neighborhood herd of deer that spend hours in my neighbor's yards eating everything. They even lay down in the yard across the street from my flower garden; there were 3 fawns this year frolicking about! I've used Liquid Fence for years with inconsistent success. Last year the deer ate EVERYTHING, right down to the dirt, including stuff they don't usually eat. We had a drought and I think they were looking for moisture as much as food. This year I made a solid effort to spray every other or at most every 3rd evening, and boy has it worked. I can't grow vegetables as not enough sun, so can't comment on them, but have lots of flowering perennials and shrubs. Azaleas, hosta, phlox, oakleaf hydrangea, sedum, windflower, daylillies, etc - they ate the daylilies in my neighbor's yard 2 feet from mine, but after initial nibbles in the spring, they've left everything alone. It means that I hire kids to spray when I'm out of town, but it is so worth it!! I buy the concentrate and use it to refill the spray bottle. I replaced the sprayer in that bottle as the one that came with the sprayer was pretty crappy. My neighbors can't get over how well it works!! I HAVE to spray it every 2 or 3 days consistently for it to work.

Quick tips:1. spray only when you know there is no chance of rain in 24 hours. It can take as short as 10 hours to dry. If you don't whatever you spray will be washed off and wasted. You can tell it has dried as the leaves get white stains on them.2. Spray DIRECTLY ON the flowers and blossoms. Don't waste it on the leaves or ground; they don't eat that unless it's springtime and they don't have many food choices. They will eat one flower/bud and EXPERIENCE that awful taste. That's the end of the munching3. Our deer keep coming back, they don't seem to remember the bad taste. So keep that repellant on the flowers.4. The odor is bad. The smell goes away after it dries. Plan accordingly (especially if you are expecting company!)5. It doesn't work as a perimeter barrier on the ground or on the leaves.6. I tried blood meal, spices and they work when put directly on the flower heads, but washes away easily.7. Spray the emerging plant leaves directly in the spring before flowering.8. You can leave it in your sprayer can for a week or two (that's all I've tried) without it gumming up or corroding the sprayer. Since it's organic, it will probably be fine for longer, but I flush mine out weekly.9. It's expensive, but so are my flowers.I have a fairly extensive flower garden, 50 feet across the front of the house and a large berm about 30' in diameter. I live by a large forest, we have couple families of brown rabbits nesting nearby (daily visitors) and ordinary eastern deer, a group of six who were initially attracted to the crabapple trees in our yard. They pass through daily. None of my neighbors have flower gardens, understandably.In the summer, the critters like the day lilies and the roses, of which there are several large groupings. They hit the flowers only, not the leaves, unless it's late winter, when they take all.Right now at the height of bloom in July, I'm fighting a battle of non-stop rain for 10 days, not enough interval between showers for the LF to dry, so I have to keep spraying daily.In late winter, early spring, the deer much on many of the plantings including the evergreen bushes. Slim food pickings for sure.In summer, all of the munching is on day lily, tiger lilly and rose flowers. They leave the peonies alone.Good Luck,