My favorite spray is Deer Solution. It smells like cloves, is natural, sticks to plants after a mild rain, and is pleasant to use. It works for deer.

I also use rat traps for the rodents that eat my peas and strawberries (which I ripped out last year in defense).

Buzzing (battery operated) mole stakes work to deter underground root eaters.

Worse comes to worse, I use my 410 shotgun on anything but the deer. I have no shame.

Hi Karen...
We also have alot of wooded area around us ....wood chuck, rabbit and deer are abundant.
For the deer, I hang small sacks ( that I bought cheaply on-line) with moth balls in them ( you can also use Milorganite)...They don't look so terrifc hanging in the azaleas, kousa, magnolia, rose of Sharon, etc. but the deer certainly keep away. You can also grate Irish Spring or Ivory soap all 'round plantings the deer might like.
For the rabbits and wood chuck, I spray "Red Hot Pepper Spray"( from Pine Tree Gardens or Gardens Alive)...They don't really enjoy that too much..
While none of these remedies are totally fool-proof, they work for me!
Good luck!
Joyce

I tried all kinds of sprays and finally gave up and had a fence put up. I notice that one of my neighbors around the corner had his vegetable garden surrounded by a three foot fence for a couple of years and I wondered how that kept deer out. Guess it didn't because now the veggies have a 7.5 foot deer netting fence. He only fenced a small area because veggies are all he's interested in. Mine goes around 3/4 of an acre front and back with a double gate at the driveway in front and two small gates in back - one to the woods and one to get to the back door of the cellar and the creek. Hopefully the fence will also cut down on the number of deer ticks.

I just bought some red pepper repellent and some fox urine for my woodchuck problem. No idea if it will work or not, but I hope so. They ate so many of my seedlings last year! By the way, when do they come out of hibernation? I want to start putting the fox urine out when they first emerge so they leave before they start having babies.

I use deer netting on anything I want to keep.

Liquid Fence (organic and smelly) works very well--I use it on my hostas down near the pond (pretty far from the house) and the deer don't touch them. It would be too expensive, though, and time-consuming to spray everything with it. So this year for our 30' x 30' vegetable garden we're going to tack 12-foot-high deer netting to saplings we've cut down and stuck in the ground (hubby has a Kubota with a post-hole-digger attachment). We (and the deer-chasing dogs) are away from Monday a.m. to Thursday p.m. every week, so we need something dependable.

Something small was eating my newly leafed out daylilies, crocus leaves, and hollyhock leaves. I threw around handfuls of dried blood and no animal has returned, not even the deer.

I use Tree Guard. It lasts 3+ months (Really! Does NOT wash off) and absolutely works. You can't use it on things _you're_ going to eat (vegetables, etc), though. You can buy it from on-line merchants, but I got mine from eBay for much less. Check out the URL, click on "more information" & watch the movie.

I have 2+ acres of tasty plants and 2 quarts is more than enough to treat them. Just a light spray is all that's necessary. One word of warning - you MUST clean your sprayer immediately after, or it'll be permanently clogged.
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Awelty

Here is a link that might be useful: Tree Guard website & movie