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BRODHEADSVILLE, PA – The Liquid Fence ^® Company is shaking things up in the lawn and garden world with a granular deer and rabbit repellent.

From the company that manufactures the #1-selling deer & rabbit repellent comes a new easy-to-apply granular that provides the same 100% guaranteed protection for all low-growing plants against deer and rabbit damage.

This unique biodegradable repellent is easy-to-apply on and around flower beds, vegetable gardens, ground cover and lawns, and safe for use on edible crops. And plants will love the diatomaceous earth-based formula.

Formed from fossils, diatomaceous earth improves drainage and can enhance air circulation around plant roots.

Liquid Fence Deer & Rabbit Repellent is eco-friendly and ready-to-use in 5 and 2 pound shaker bottles, covering approximately 500 square feet per pound. Best of all, no spreader is needed; just shake it where you need it!

Homeowners, professional landscapers, and commercial growers have long discovered that Liquid Fence stops destructive deer and rabbits from ruining landscape and crops, naturally.

Since it works on scent, deer and rabbits don’t browse crops and plants because their natural aversion to the scent never diminishes! And, unlike many competitor repellents, the long-lasting, rain-resistant formula doesn’t require rotation with other repellent brands to remain effective.

Liquid Fence Deer & Rabbit Repellent Granular is destined to become a new easy-to-use favorite in the homeowner, grower and landscaper arsenal to ward off these relentless foes. Look for it soon at garden centers, and hardware stores.

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Contacts: The Liquid Fence Company/ Deb Talarico deb@liquidfence.com or Emily Gonzalez emily@liquidfence.com / (570) 722-8452

BRODHEADSVILLE, PA – When Bambi invites all his friends to dinner this Spring, make sure it’s not in your yard! Or they’ll be crunching tulips like candy and popping peas right off the vine.  And you can bet they’ll be stealing your prize tomatoes this summer and munching your mums in the fall!

With deer tipping the 30 million mark and suburban sprawl on the rise, it’s no wonder these unwanted creatures are cruising your neighborhood and destroying your yard in the process.

“We garden to create our own private patch of Eden and escape the demands of daily life,” says Rhonda Massingham Hart, author of Deerproofing Your Yard & Garden. “When deer violate these living sanctuaries they damage more than plants. They hurt us.”

It’s more than frustrating to spend your time, effort, and money to turn your yard into a haven only to find your new flowers and shrubs have been mowed down by hungry deer and rabbits.  It’s expensive. An adult deer eats between 6 and 10 lbs of food per day, costing homeowners millions of dollars annually.

In today’s economy, you really can’t afford not to treat your valuable plants and yard. “Folks spend too much time and money on the perfect plants to let the deer and rabbits spoil it all by eating them,” says world-renown horticulturist, native plant breeder and author Dr. Allan Armitage.

Oh, deer…what to do?
Forget putting a radio blaring in your azaleas, fabric softener sheets strewn over your flowers, hair in mesh bags or soap dangling from tree branches. Bambi and friends will enjoy the music as they play with the soap and dine alfresco using the sheets as placemats.

But be forewarned: An ounce of prevention in spring is worth a pound of cure.

You could put up deer fences everywhere, and that will pretty much stop the deer. An ideal deer proof fence should be constructed of woven wire at least 8 feet high. Even though building and maintaining a deer proof fence can be expensive ($10 – $12 per foot) and labor intensive, a well-constructed fence will last for many years.  But deer have been known to jump fairly high, and the fencing blocks the view of your tulips and that defeats the purpose.

A more economical method of excluding deer may be with an electric fence. Electric fences should be constructed of highly visible polytape wire and quality fencing components, using from 1 to 5 or more strands of charged wire. Higher deer populations typically require more charged wires because deer are hungrier and more difficult to deter. But this is expensive and the wire often breaks.

According Dave Mizejewski, naturalist with the National Wildlife Association.Mizejewski, “It’s much easier to prevent critter damage than it is to stop the foraging cycle once it’s begun. Repellents are easy and are designed to smell or taste bad to critters.” He recommends all-natural repellents that stop critters from eating your plants, are safe for the environment and don’t harm wildlife.

Back off Bambi!
Deer rely heavily on their super-sensitive noses to find food and sense danger, but it’s also their Achilles heel.

That’s why a liberal application of a proven effective, all-season deer repellent such as Liquid Fence® Deer & Rabbit Repellent (www.liquidfence.com) on and around landscaped gardens stops unwanted visitors cold from dining on plants they find irresistible.

It works on ‘scent’ and dries odorless to us but not to deer and rabbits, so they don’t have to take a bite to be effective – unlike other repellents that require the deer to “munch away.”  Once they get a sniff, even rabbits will be hopping back to the forest and not toward your carrots or pansies!

“I’ve been a fan of Liquid Fence since my first application years ago,” says Dr. Armitage. “It’s the No. 1 repellent on the market, and I wouldn’t trust my garden to anything else.”

Garden Survival Guide
Armitage recommends spraying a repellent in the spring as soon as the tender shoots appear, and around all plants, trees and shrubs.

And you don’t need to buy different repellents to rotate applications and reapply weekly to see great results. Rotating repellents is an “urban myth”.

Today folks are looking for ways to save “green” while they “go green.”  Liquid Fence Deer & Rabbit Repellent is actually less expensive than the green alternatives so you can feel good that it’s safe for the environment as well as your kids, pets, plants, and your wallet.

Repellent should be applied monthly and can withstand about one-inch of rain. It’s a good idea to reapply after a heavy downpour of an inch or more.

All together now
And if Bambi invites his other friends – rabbits, geese, moles, snakes and other unwanted critters, The Liquid Fence Company has a complete line of natural, environmentally safe solutions to keep them out of the garden and in the woods.

For more information visit www.liquidfence.com.

ELLICOTT CITY, MD – With an exploding white-tailed deer population wreaking havoc on Maryland’s suburban landscapes, vegetable gardens, and one very special pear tree, Jackson Lee Koepke of Ellicott City was determined to discover “the most effective deer repellent” and then go public with his findings. And that’s just what he did!
He devised a series of ingenious experiments that were carried out on a deer-plagued property bordering Patapsco Valley State Park. The dramatic results were presented to a small group of fellow scientists, not to mention his 2nd grade teacher Mrs. Bourke, at Hollifield Station Elementary School’s most recent Science Fair.

“It was a lot of fun and a great project for Jack,” father Mark Koepke boasted.

Jackson chose the experiment for the school Science Fair after his sister’s Korean ornamental pear tree was decimated by local deer only one week after it had been planted in the Koepke’s yard. “Darn if the deer didn’t nearly eat the entire tree. And it was expensive!” Mr. Koepke lamented.

The experiment involved five 10-pound piles of a deer-favorite, dried corn. Equally spaced in the family yard that adjoins Patapsco, four of the five piles were mixed with different repellents recommended by a local garden products retailer: human hair (from Jackson’s last haircut), Squirrel Away Hot Pepper Powder, a grated bar of Irish Spring soap, and Liquid Fence Deer & Rabbit Repellent. A control pile was left untreated (and lasted all of two hours). After two weeks of well-documented observation and very mixed results, Jackson Koepke had one clear winner in his “Most Effective Deer Repellent” experiment.

“The Liquid Fence treated corn was completely untouched. Other methods slowed the deer but ultimately failed.”

Organized on a bright green poster board, the results of Jackson’s experiment are actually quite amazing when you consider the number of deer that regularly come looking for a meal on the family property.

“We counted 12 deer in the yard just yesterday, right Jack?” adds dad, “But now they won’t eat anything sprayed with Liquid Fence.” So all’s well that ends well. Jackson’s presentation was a hit at the school Science Fair and thanks to his “discovery”, his sister’s Korean pear tree has now fully recovered. But, what about future science projects and career plans?

“I want to be an engineer” says Jackson enthusiastically, and, if you have a bit of time he’ll tell you all about his current backyard Lego city building project.

BRODHEADSVILLE, PA – In the heart of rural Bucks County, Pennsylvania, near the quiet village of Tinicum, there lies a little piece of the English countryside called Cedaridge Farm. It is the home of Derek Fell, world-renowned horticulturist, photographer and author of more than sixty award-winning garden books. A test garden where Derek evaluates different plant varieties and growing techniques, Cedaridge Farm is 24 acres of natural and cultivated beauty, the likes of which would have inspired Claude Monet himself. But what is most amazing about this haven of herbaceous tranquility is that it exists – survives might be a better word – in spite of daily invasion by relentless, destructive forces of nature. Every evening, like clockwork, dozens of deer from neighboring Ralph Stover State Park wander through Derek’s property, hungry and looking for dinner. They’re tempted by the tasty plantings – but they don’t touch – because Derek has a secret weapon – Liquid Fence Deer & Rabbit Repellent.

Having tried countless methods to repel deer – with little or no effect – Derek is completely reliant on this all-natural, easy-to-use spray. Liquid Fence is so effective, even protecting deer favorites such as tulips and hostas, it has prompted Derek to assert, “I couldn’t have a garden without it”.

Liquid Fence Deer & Rabbit Repellent works on scent – so the deer don’t have to take a bite to be repelled. In the early spring, Derek starts spraying Liquid Fence Deer & Rabbit Repellent on his plantings as soon as the tender shoots appear. A once-a-month spraying is all that’s needed because Liquid Fence keeps working after it rains – but Derek says it’s a good idea to reapply after a heavy downpour of an inch or more. Best of all, it’s effective through all four seasons – repelling deer right through the coldest winter months.

Liquid Fence Deer & Rabbit Repellent – the number-one selling deer and rabbit repellent in America – is manufactured in Pennsylvania, a heavily deer-populated state. It’s available at local garden centers and hardware stores everywhere. Call the Liquid Fence toll-free number for a store near you: (800) 923-3623. You can also buy Liquid Fence on the web at www.liquidfence.com. If you’d like to view Derek Fell’s picture-perfect garden or find out more about his wonderful books, visit www.derekfell.net.

BRODHEADSVILLE, PA – The makers of America’s number-one selling deer and rabbit repellent have launched Just Pump & Spray! The Liquid Fence® Company’s new combo pack comes with a sturdy, refillable, easy-pump, 48 ounce pressure sprayer and 6 ounces of Deer & Rabbit Repellent Concentrate, enough to make 3 quarts of repellent.

“It’s no surprise that many of our customers are women and senior citizens, in general, both love to garden,” explains The Liquid Fence Company president, Eddie Abraham. He adds, “We’ve often heard that the repetitive squeezing action needed with traditional trigger-spray bottles can cause some people pain or hand-muscle fatigue. That’s why we decided to offer the easy-to-use pressure sprayer bottle.”

All it takes to apply the repellent is a simple up and down pumping action to pressurize the sprayer, then by depressing the locking trigger button, a continuous, adjustable spray will evenly apply the all-natural Liquid Fence® Deer & Rabbit Repellent.

Gardeners will also be attracted to the value that the Just Pump & Spray! pack offers. Making a generous 3 quarts at the outset, dollar conscious shoppers can then purchase economical quart or 40 ounce concentrate refills of Liquid Fence Deer & Rabbit Repellent. To make the value even more appealing, each kit comes with an easy-to-redeem  $5 mail-in manufacturer’s rebate.

Liquid Fence Deer & Rabbit Repellent works on scent – so the animals don’t have to take a bite to be repelled. A once-a-month spraying is all that’s needed because the repellent keeps working after it rains, even up to 4 inches per month, but it’s a good idea to reapply after a torrential downpour. Liquid Fence is effective through all four seasons – repelling deer and rabbits right through the coldest winter months.

Backed by a 100% money-back satisfaction guarantee, Liquid Fence Deer & Rabbit Repellent is available at local garden centers and hardware stores everywhere. Call the Liquid Fence toll-free number for a store near you: (800) 923-3623. You can also buy Liquid Fence on the web at www.liquidfence.com.