- ISBN13: 9781594869099
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Product Description
Every year, before they decide to take defensive action, vulnerable homeowners throughout North America suffer expensive damage as deer and various other pesky mammals devour their gardens and landscape plants. Deer-Resistant Landscaping arms homeowners with the proven strategies they need to repel and combat deer and 21 other troubling pests, from armadillos, chipmunks, and gophers to rabbits, raccoons, skunks, and squirrels. Outstanding features include: - str… More >>
#1 by Karen Hill on May 15, 2010 - 9:08 pm
I find shopping at Amazon.com to be easy and efficient. I live in the country with limited access to shopping, short of driving 40 minutes. I just go to Amazon.com and search for whatever I am in need of, and more than likely, Amazon has several options with great prices. Obviously, if I’m buying a book on “Deer Resistant Landscaping” I really live in the country and I need all the help Amazon can give me.
Karen the country girl…..
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Marsha on May 15, 2010 - 11:18 pm
The book was dedicated to telling you all about the animal that is being pesky. Then it may give one option of a solution. I thought the book was not really what I was looking for.
Rating: 3 / 5
#3 by C. Reid on May 16, 2010 - 1:39 am
The title of this book understates what it provides. It is about much more than deer — rats, voles, woodchucks, and many other animals are covered. Usually when I research a problem varmint, I find either natural history (animal habit info) or pest control information. I rarely find the two integrated together as they are in this book. I own an Audubon Society book on mammals, which is good to understand how they live in the wild, but not so good when figuring out my control options. Usually I bypass deer control books (nothing new under the sun) but this book – containing so much more info – caught my eye.
Neil Soderstrom provides facts and insights for understanding the history and habits of the animal one is dealing with, and provides control and management options for real-world situations.
I think highly enough of this book that I gave it as a gift to a wildlife control professional I know.
It is a thorough effort and well worth owning. It is not a superficial treatment that you can pick up in a quick scan while standing in a book store — much more effort and substance has gone into this book. I heard Soderstrom speak and clearly he was completely immersed in understanding his subject matter. I do recommend this book.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by Hypatia on May 16, 2010 - 2:33 am
Spring brought unwelcome vistas of straggly yews around the foundation of our house for several years. Each time I replaced a badly damaged yew, the deer only ate the replacement with renewed relish. Nibbling yews can kill cattle and sheep, but not white-tailed deer who chomp on them with immunity and impunity.
What to do? Why not replace the wretched-looking yews with native species that have had centuries to develop tastes and odors that deer loathe. This book provided a gallery of unpalatable but lovely choices that had been researched by gardeners throughout the United States. After careful reading, I consulted a local horticulturist who specializes in propagating native species and am now anticipating planting a deer-proof yard.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by K. D. Cutler on May 16, 2010 - 4:33 am
Deer-Resistant Landscaping is the best and most systematic and complete treatment of a topic that plagues more and more gardeners every year, an essential guide for those of us who neither want nor can afford to surround our properties with 12-foot fences (with an apology to the author, but no 4-foot mesh fence has ever protected my vegetables). Not everything recommended may work for every gardener, but all the strategies are worth considering and most are worth trying.
And as a bonus, the author provides help with dealing with other problematic wildlife, such as voles and woodchucks, both of which are a bane to New England gardeners like me. Gardeners in other regions will rejoice that their foes, such as ground squirrels, are well covered.
Soderstrom’s advice is clear and specific, his many photographs are excellent and instructive, and his plant lists are detailed enough to be truly helpful.
For gardeners whose flowers, vegetables, fruits, shrubs, vines, and trees are being nibbled away both above and below ground, this is a must-have volume, as useful as a spade or hoe.
Rating: 5 / 5