Not too long ago, poisons and traps were the standard methods to protect your garden and crops from rodents and small pests. Poisons are a bad idea for the simple reason that they are poisonous and can harm your kids and pets. Poisons also tend to find their way into the water and soil which your edible crops take nourishment from which is obviously not what you wanted in the first place.<\/p>\n
There are many other animals that harm gardens and crops and against which the poisons do not work anyway. There are other animals that also damage your garden and frustrate home owners, and which the undesirable poisons and traps are ineffective against. Deer, birds, cats and dogs.. the list goes on.<\/p>\n
Anyone who lives in an area where deer abound, knows that these lovely animals can be a severe nuisance and wreck vegetable gardens as well as decorative plants and trees. Although it is easy to scare deer, a normal scarecrow is totally ineffective because to them it is just another static part of the garden. The same is true of birds. Reflective banners look bad in your garden and they are not very effective against birds..<\/p>\n
And who wants to have their garden littered with reflective banners and ugly traditional scarecrows?<\/p>\n
There is a solution to all of these problems in the shape of the modern scarecrow which is essentially a motion activated sprinkler such as the Contech Scarecrow Sprinkler<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Scarecrow sprinklers have quickly become popular with residential homeowners as well as people living in more rural areas.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n This is a ecological and animal friendly way to keep your garden safe. The animal is simply scared away with tap water.. The only requirement is a garden hose and plain water. It is also a humane animal deterrent because there are no poisons, no traps and the animal is simply scared away. A scarecrow sprinkler is also more effctive than a traditional garden scarecrow because the spray of water it shoots has a powerful surprise effect and covers quite a bit of ground. The mechanism is simple, which also makes it very reliable and maintenance-free.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Usage is straightforward: If the motion detector in the scarecrow is activated the sprinkler shoots a quick spray of water that scares the offending animal away. It works on the majority of aniimals, from small rodents to birds to deer..<\/p>\n<\/p>\n If you decide to buy a Scarecrow Sprinkler we recommend you buy a established brand and model. Contech are marketleaders with their Contech Electronics CRO101 Scarecrow Motion-Activated Sprinkler<\/a> Not too long ago, poisons and traps were the standard methods to protect your garden and crops from rodents and small pests. Poisons are a bad idea for the simple reason that they are poisonous and can harm your kids and pets. Poisons also tend to find their way into the water and soil which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[834,831,832,833],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-container-garden-design","category-container-gardening-ideas","tag-contech","tag-motion-activated-sprinkler","tag-scarecrow-sprinkler","tag-scarecrows"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/containergardeningexpert.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
1) Conect the screcrow to a garden tap, for example via your garden hose.
2) Position it so that it covers an area you want to protect.
3) Open the tap. The scarecrow sprinkler is now armed. The mechanism only uses water when it fires.<\/p>\n
. Hundreds of positive reviews on Amazon marketplce is a testament to the quality and popularity of the Contech Scarecrow Sprinkler<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"