permaculture

["lynnann" <lynnann@newnorth.net>]

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