Contech Electronics Scarecrow Motion-Activated Sprinkler #CRO101/CRO102

Contech Electronics Scarecrow Motion-Activated Sprinkler #CRO101/CRO102
Finally a way to keep unwanted animals out of the garden and protect your yard, fruit trees, vegetables and flowers from hungry or destructive creatures. Cats, dogs, deer, rabbits, large birds, and many others. The patented Scarecrow motion-activated sprinkler is the smartest scarecrow ever invented. When it sees an intruder it instantly releases full garden hose water pressure towards the trespasser. The effect is both startling and immediate. Animals quickly get out of the area and avoid it in the future.The ScareCrow motion-activated sprinkler is constructed of durable, high-quality materials, and has been designed to provide many years of reliable service.

Side view of spray radius. Click to enlarge.

Top view of spray radius. Click to enlarge.

Using the ScareCrow is easy. Simply attach a standard garden hose to its base, set the ScareCrow in the ground in the area you want to protect, and then turn on the water. Once you switch the unit on, it is ready to go.

How does it work?
The ScareCrow uses a combination of sudden noise, unexpected movement, and a startling blast of water to create a memorable and unpleasant experience for the trespasser.
The animal immediately associates this unpleasant experience with the location, and to avoid similar surprises, learns to avoid the area. If an animal chooses to return, the ScareCrow will be waiting.
While a human may flee several steps after activating a ScareCrow, animals are typically affected to a much greater degree. In most cases they run much farther, and stay away longer. Because the unit only triggers when the animal moves, its behavior is difficult for animals to anticipate, making it a very effective deterrent.

Customer Review: fish protector
If you are having problems with birds getting in your pond and getting your fish than this may help. My pond is 25 feet by 11 feet at the largest end and so I purchased 2 scarecrows( one at first.) It would have worked with only one aiming down the length of the pond, which I tried first, but its area of motion is wide and it would not let me near the pond unless I turned it off. But of course, turning it off is very easy. A simple knob is how you do that and there are numbers on the bird to remember where you had it set. I ordered another one and I placed them aiming across the width of the pond away from the main walking area. I can get to the edge of the pond but as soon as I reach in the water I get sprayed. If I walk around to the other side of the pond I get sprayed also. Doing it this way I get coverage past the pond to my back fence, about 25 feet, on setting # 5. I was having problems with white cranes, I live 2 miles from a lake in a residential neighborhood. I have had no more bird attacks in the 2 months of service.I just changed the battery, didn’t need to, just did. By-the-way, the wind moving the leaves of large plants set it off sometimes. We are happy with our new protection it is only fitting we name them, Heckel and Jeckel . If you have a good imagination and you look just right, they kind of look like black birds, after you put on the stickers.

Customer Review: Well worth it
Cant complain, It works great! I have a neighbor who’s dog walks across the street every morning to poop on my lawn. I spoke to neighbor several times over the past few years and they have made it clear that they just dont care and it’s not their problem.

After setting this little beauty up I dont wake up to any more poopies!

It’s just a shame I had to spend money out of my pocket to keep THEIR dog off my lawn.

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Complete Garden plant selector, planting advice & pruning guide encyclopaedia 2007 (PC/Mac)
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Ratchet-Cut Hand Pruner
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This is a great, quality product and the lifetime replacement guarantee is also a plus. I have used similar ‘imitation’ ratchet-cut pruners that broke very easily and this Florian pruner is definitely very strong and durable.

Cotton Rope 9mm X 15m

Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long
If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States has more winter sunshine than the south of France. He shows how North American gardeners can successfully use that sun to raise a wide variety of traditional winter vegetables in backyard cold frames and plastic covered tunnel greenhouses without supplementary heat. Coleman expands upon his own experiences with new ideas learned on a winter-vegetable pilgrimage across the ocean to the acknowledged kingdom of vegetable cuisine, the southern part of France, which lies on the 44th parallel, the same latitude as his farm in Maine.
This story of sunshine, weather patterns, old limitations and expectations, and new realities is delightfully innovative in the best gardening tradition. Four-Season Harvest will have you feasting on fresh produce from your garden all through the winter.
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I love this book. It inspires with it’s adroit mix of low-tech in an informed, high-tech world. Nope, not a return to the past, but the good past informs and points the way to an unexpectedly lush future. Gardening by latitude? Year-round harvests in MAINE? Particularly interesting to me is the fresh look of self-sufficient gardening when you harvest just what you need to eat, when you need it, instead of giant harvests for canning and freezing. It makes the entire process fit more comfortably into an ordinary life… exactly what I was looking for. No heroics, lots of common sense. I’ll be using this book a lot!
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If they can do it it Maine, it shouod be possible just about anywhere. Interesting reading with good, usable background info. Plan on incorporating all of their suggestions this coming year!