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  • From: "lynnann" <lynnann@newnorth.net>
  • To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] DE-tour Deer
  • Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 07:36:24 -0500

Hi all...Up here in Nord'ern WI...deer rule...so....us hoopers just try to
detour them from areas where we use MOM to grow stuff. I've found a very
nice product that I start using right after the snow begins to
melt...like...two weeks ago...and I spray it down by my lake property
line...where the deer come around when the ice goes out of the lake. They
used to continue around the lake on a path that is now just starting to grow
back...now they cross the road and walk down the highway.

No...it doesn't stink..it's not animal/human urine...or blood and guts ground
up......it's got a very nice fragrance...I think of my spraying sessions as
aromatherapy. It's a concoction that a fellow from New Jersey made up over
26 years ago and works very well. It's basis is rosemary and peppermint oil
with a couple products to make it sticky. It is completely organic...as a
matter of fact...it's considered a food product.

I won't use this list to advertise but if anyone wants the product name...and
with your permission...I'll post it...Many of you might already know the one
I'm talking about.

Many of you also know that I have an independent eco-people friendly garden
center up here in the far northwoods (well actually I'm on the edge of the
woods...so I have sun).

Gardening with Conscience is emblazoned on my sign...check out some photos of
my place on the Frapper Permaculture sight. I'm the only "balloon" in
northern WI. I'm doing my best up here to connect folks with MOM.

My intention is that I garden for the good of the earth first...and I'm
rewarded with wondrous bounty. I spray the perimeter of my property (2
acres) and then some inside around the perennial and annual tables....for
three seasons I've lost nothing to deer, including my apple orchard...(and
this place was planted in plastic flowers when I bought it...yikes)....I have
a sacrificial hemlock that is my "litmus" as to whether they are getting on
the property and so far so good.

This product I'm talking about is the ONLY deer repellent I sell...or
recommend...there is also a product this company sells for enclosing large
areas...it consists of fiberglass poles and fabric tape that you enclose your
plot in and spray the tape with the solution...I sell a lot of it to hunters
for their "feed plots"..but it would work for gardens as well. I thought I
might have to resort to it...but so far I haven't.

My theory and practice is to just not let the deer get close enough to my
property..and if I can detour them across the road NOW in the spring...it
just doesn't seem to occur to them to come back this way...once they have
their "route" they seem to stick to it....love and peace...lynnann




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