permaculture

[Steve Hoog <livingpotentials@yahoo.com>]

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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