Plantskydd Animal Repellent - Repels Deer, Rabbits, Elk, Moose, Hares, Voles, Squirrels, Chipmunks and Other Herbivores; 3.5 LB Granular Shaker Jug (PS-VRD-3)

I think Plantskyyd is genius! It is ridiculously expensive for dried cow blood, but it doesn’t take much and it’s brilliantly effective against squirrels in my riverside town in northeastern Delaware. Squirrels treat my four 4’ x 4’ raised beds like their personal playgrounds! Like sandboxes! They dig holes all over them just for fun. They don’t bury nuts or seeds there. I check. For burying nuts and seeds, the squirrels prefer my flower beds or potted plants. In my raised beds, where there’s nice loose soil, they just like to play, to dig for fun – or sometimes for mischief. I’m certain it’s a game. Just before I started using Plantskyyd, I had this experience: I planted 8 small lettuce and kale plants in one raised bed. That night, squirrels dug big holes right next to 7 of those plants and then pulled up the 8th one and layed it on its side to die, as if to say “Look what we did? Now it’s your turn!” Next morning, after a little giggle over this, I bought Plantskyyd. I filled in the holes and watered the little plants, leveled off the soil in the bed, and sprinkled Plantskyyd over the surface. After that I never saw so much as a squirrel footprint in that raised bed! It was as good as a wire cage. My garden remains undisturbed by squirrels for months at a time UNLESS – and this sometimes does happen – I stir up the soil surface somehow, like by raking my hand over it, by digging out an old plant or putting in a new one, or even by pulling out a big old weed. Once the soil surface has been disturbed, I have to sprinkle Plantskyyd again, or the game’s back on and I’ll find little pointless holes dug in any area where the soil was overturned. Squirrels are not intimidated if the Plantskyyd has been dug into the garden soil. It must be on the surface. Just a sprinkle, not a pile. I sprinkle Plantskyyd after I scatter seeds, but if I go out later and thin the seeds, I sprinkle a little more. A squirrel can do a lot of damage to a sea of minuscule spinach sprouts. But once the garden surface is coated and the beds start filling out with vegetables, I don’t have to give squirrels another thought all summer. Even after rain. If I’ve still got crops growing in the fall, and see a hole-shaped message from a squirrel, I might give the area another sprinkle of Plantskyyd, but in the many years I’ve been using this product now, I’ve noticed that squirrels seem to lose interest in my raised beds once they’re cluttered with vegetable plants. I think they’ve got some other game on by then, somewhere else. It helps to have a garden layout and planting schedule worked out in advance. Put everything where you definitely want it to stay and grow and then sprinkle Plantskydd over the soil surface, not on the plants themselves. Though the directions tell you how often to reapply it, in my experience, if the soil surface remains undisturbed, Plantskyyd can work all summer. Admittedly, I have a single pest – just squirrels – so I cannot attest to how well Plantskyyd deters other animals. For me, it’s the perfect solution to my squirrel combatants. Nobody’s hurt, but I win. It allows me to grow the food I eat all spring, summer, and fall. That’s worth the price I pay for Plantskyyd.

Worked for me!

I now have absolute proof that the granular product, based on a prior purchase, does not prevent black tailed deer from eating calibrachoa or pelargonium flowers. I wish I had taken photos before and after. The pelargoniums are about 2-3 ft. tall and I thought that smaller plants might be protected. The test came with a pot of flowering calibrachoa and all went well for a bout three weeks as the pant recovered from a prior attack without Plantskydd. But just as it was in full bloom it was again eaten to the core. In summary, I have now tried the liquid (which definitely leaves marks on the leaves of Lilies of the Nile) and the granular. I do not know who has had success and under what circumstances. I will need to see pictures of deer browsing around the plants but not eating them in order to be convinced that it works. I have now returned the unopened large supply.

Have found this to be fairly effective in my flower gardens in keeping deer from nibbling as long as I apply it early in season and reapply every few weeks or so.

I like the product, although the container that the company uses is below standard and has been sent with holes in the bottom and product spilled into shipping box. I canceled subscription and bought a different product.

Any Plantskydd product - liquid or granular - is the most effective deer and critter repellent I have ever used! Well worth the price. One application in the spring will protect all summer, rain and shine. Another application in the fall will keep the deer from stripping tender bushes.

Product works as described. Effective for pest as described. Safe around small dog. Lasted longer than described.

Maybe it works for deer but did nothing to repel my neighbors goat that they refused to fence in.