If you have access to a barber shop, get the hair cuttings, put them in cheesecloth and hang them around the garden. An old Mandan/Arikira native gardener told me this trick. Said that in the old days the native gardeners used scalps. Try it - it really works, the barber shop cuttings that is. Nels in ND >Deer don't like soap shavings - place them around your plants > >Sharen Rund Bloechl > > ---------- > From: Robert Farr [SMTP:rbfarr@erols.com] > Sent: Friday, January 15, 1999 3:10 PM > To: Ed Cutrell > Cc: Phil Cody; Chile Heads > Subject: Re: [CH] New Datil Powder and Datil Seed Source > > And I had success growing them in No. Va Purcellville 55 NW of >Wash., > D.C. > > Had them in pots until mid-July, when I dug them into the farm. > > They produced prodigiously and boy are they hot!! Hotter than the > > average bear, er, Hab. Wow!!! > > As for deer, why don't you do what I do and let the neighbors come >and thin > the herds. > > My friendly hunters know to stay far away from my house, and >frankly, I > never even see them when they come. > > Best of all, I get free venison for a couple months. The freezer is >full > > Robert Farr > The Chile Man > >