Can we fool a deer’s nose with plants? We can alter the environment with hinge cutting to provide bedding areas, we can plant food plots and hunt their feeding habits, we can add a watering hole to manipulate the thirst, we can add crp to bring them to cover. All of the above bring them to us by attraction. As a hunter, I watch around the contiguous parcels for pressure and I use this deterrent in my favor. Deer do not know lot lines. Is it possible to plant a columbine, dianthus, thymus or ageratum and to keep them from frequenting an area? The plants mentioned are known deer deterrents, not sure they would work in November, sounds like some of the plants would be around early season for sure. One of the articles I read claimed there are over 600 plants that deer do not like. I have read nothing from a hunting perspective, but lots from a gardening perspective. Do you think this could be planted and funnel deer? If you don’t think that it would funnel or deter deer (maybe from unwanted bedding area), then would you plant to fool their nose close to where you hunt? The aroma is very strong from some of the plants. We manipulate deer with plants currently, would something like this work? This might be completely ridiculous? I must point out, I am not sure if this is legal or illegal. I post a lot of what ifs, not to provoke but to learn. If this is offensive, I apologize. I am not saying break the law or try this by any means. I honestly have no clue. If this has already been talked about before, please ignore and post the link if you have time.
I've never heard of doing this for hunting only for gardening. Interesting concept but I don't think I would be interested in deterring deer from anything. If they would eat the wife a flowers I'd let them.
