PlantskyddAnimal 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.

This is a great option if you don't want to cage in ALL of your plants. I was a little reluctant to buy this as it is quite expensive, but so are flowers!! This is the first year that I had almost no loss of tulips to the rabbits. I sprinkled it around all of my spring bulbs as soon as the greens were about 4". I sprinkled it around my perennials as soon as they started to poke through . . . . I have one area at the very back of my yard where the rabbits seem to feel entitled to chew on my shrubs and coneflowers and are not deterred by the product -- but it IS working on about 80% of my flora. I am applying it at approximately 6 week intervals.

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.

Worked for a while, but then the animals ignored it. Too expensive to keep spreading more and more and not having the desired affect.

I got this product due to the stellar recommendation of an Alaskan (in Anchorage) who swore it kept moose from eating his trees. He said "It stinks but it works." I live in a midAtlantic state where the deer are abundant and hungry. They eat even plants which are "deer resistent". I put this around my fruit trees, flower garden, etc. I don't know if it repelled deer, but my dogs (golden retriever & goldendoodle) won't leave it alone. They eat the dirt and mulch on which it's spread. Not what I wanted.

The most effective deer and rabbit repellent I have found.Doesn’t have a bad smell

Wonderful product ,has saved countless plants from chewing rabbits. Always always have it on hand.

Not sure if it works but it came with content not matching the photos. it came like 2/3 full, height-wise, below the top of the label, and its been 3 days since message sent and no reply. i wasnt thinking and used it before coming back here and realizing these photos show it filled to the very top. it had the blue tape on it also, but the inside seal was not stuck all the way around so that was unsealed. it doesnt seem to last long at all. one use sparingly on gardens dropped my level down to the bottom of the handle. i think i was short changed on quantity, and got no reply in 3 days. if you buy it, weight it to see if it matches what it says on the container, but what i got did not match the photos, and that should not be allowed. i don't know if it works or not. the deer and rabbits have ignored liquid sprays and are even eating types of plants they never ate for decades.