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  • From: "Lisa Rollens" <rollens@fidnet.com>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] DE-tour Deer
  • Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:36:14 -0500

Yes, lynnann, I would love to know the name of this product! Thanks, Lisa, in the Ozarks of MO


----- Original Message ----- From: "lynnann" <lynnann@newnorth.net>
To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 7:36 AM
Subject: [permaculture] DE-tour Deer


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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