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  • From: Steve Hoog <livingpotentials@yahoo.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] DE-tour Deer
  • Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 10:14:58 -0700 (PDT)

let me know the name of this product --thanks.----steve

lynnann <lynnann@newnorth.net> wrote: 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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