Business & Tech

Gadget Review: Keep Nibbling Deer At Bay

The problem: keeping your newly planted flora safe from the marauding herds of deer roaming the neighborhood at night. The solution: a well-aimed blast of water from the Guardiner.

Regular readers will know that we at and that we go particularly goo-goo over a particularly good gadget.

Ones that help us, do what their makers say they will do, work simply and efficiently and leave a sparse footprint.

Here's one we found that we liked and which has successfully kept the Antlered Gangs prowling our neighborhood at night at bay. The Guardiner.

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This little guy is a solar-powered water cistern equipped with an infra-red motion detector and rain-bird spray device on its face. When the antlered ones approach, the Guardiner emits a high-pitched buzz the drives off the scaredy cats -- and then backs it up with a spray of water to fend off the hardcore flower eaters.

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Any overspray goes onto the garden. And no one in the herd gets hurt. They just move off in search of easier pickins'.

Beats any of the other anti-deer tricks we have heard about and tried over the years.


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