Re: [CH] Plants That Repel Animals
Vikki (vikbill@gibralter.net)
Tue, 13 Jul 1999 10:33:39 -0400
I have a problem with deer eating all my plants. My chiles and tomatoes
are protected by a cheap fencing material, but the deer still eat my
flowers. One way to protect any plant is to plant marigolds around
whatever you're protecting. For two years in a row, the deer have
avoided the marigolds, probably because of the smell. Marigolds have
another benefit in that they are supposed to help with insect control
around veggie plants too.
Another method we use is that my husband urinates in an empty mayonnaise
jar throughout the day, and in the late evening, when no one can see him
carrying around a jar of pee, he pours it around the border of the
plants (not on the plants, around them) and those are the nights the
deer haven't visited. When they have visited is when we haven't done
the urine trick for a week or if it had just rained.
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Vikki