Folks: I live in a very deer-y area, near Carlos Avery WMA. I have a large shade garden. To keep the deer out, I push a pellet of Repellex into the soil to touch the roots of each plant on the deer-love-em list. You only need do it once each season. I have done this since summer of 2007, and so far the deer have only eaten 1 plant. I must have missed that one!!
It's a bit $$ but when you think about how much $$ and effort you put into a garden in a season, being able to view and work with your plants all season seems to be worth it. The pellets last more than 1 year. I don't use the whole jar in one garden season, so I finish it up the following spring. I push the pellets into the ground just as the plants are coming up. If the plants are large, it sometimes takes 2 pellets. I first used the spray product which lasts for a month, but it smelled like excrement and my dog loved it.... She ate the plant I did the experiment on, so I figured the deer would, too. Returned it and got the pellets. Had to keep the remains of that plant out of her reach for over a month until the spray wore off. Holly Peirson Columbus, Anoka Co. Now, about those voles... My owl families are not keeping up their end of the bargain... But I'll go to a gardening listserv for that discussion! ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
