Although mostly harmless to home gardeners, chipmunks have been known to eat newly planted garden beds. The main tactic for getting rid of Chips and Dale is to eliminate places where Chips and Dale might live, such as hollow logs or piles of rocks.
To prevent chipmunks from burrowing in your garden, sprinkle dry blood meal over the surface of the soil. Blood also supplies nitrogen to the soil.
Chipmunks covet newly planted bulbs, especially crocuses, hyacinths and tulips. For protection, plant the bulbs in wire baskets or sprinkle moth crystals on them. You can also plant the bulbs deeper than usual and cover them with coarse gravel. Because animals usually give up digging when they reach a stone.
Another good tip is to turn a plastic fork upside down to keep squirrels and chipmunks out of wine barrels and flower pots with various bulbs.
Deer are shy and cute, but their numbers have increased in recent years and they have become a pest in many areas. Your garden offers a tempting menu, as they eat flowers, leaves, greens, vegetables, and pretty much anything else. . They may even damage lawn furniture or themselves in an attempt to appetize.
Beat hot sauce. Spraying bushes with a very thin mixture of cayenne pepper and water allows deer to eat elsewhere.
Cover individual shrubs with 1/2 inch wire or vinyl mesh. Secure t to the platform base with twine.
Stake chicken wire flat around the perimeter of your yard. Deer don’t like walking on it and it’s not as obtrusive as an upright fence.
To leave a scent that deer hate, stuff the legs of old pantyhose with human hair from a hairbrush or local barber shop. Even better, after brushing your pantyhose, stuff it with rover fur. Tie the ends together and hang a nylon pouch where the deer often eat. They won’t come back for seconds. The smell of the hair and fur will disappear after a while, so please replace it every 4 to 5 days.