[Magdalen] Spring has Sprung.

[Charles Wohlers]

As you say, peeing on plants, etc., is somewhat effective, but it does wash 
off. Fortunately, neither my garden nor my apple trees are visible by 
neighbors or from the road.   ;-)

The deer problem at our place in VT isn't major, although you can definitely 
count on fruit tree twigs being eaten, mostly in Nov. & Dec. if you don't do 
anything. (Later in the season the snow's too deep for them to get around 
easily). I do use a spray, the name of which escapes me, which has H2S 
(rotten eggs) and garlic, among other things. It works for me.


Chad Wohlers
East Bridgewater, MA USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Sibyl Smirl
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 7:32 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Spring has Sprung.

I've heard that any large predator (meat-eater) urine will do it, though
that probably shouldn't be applied directly to the plants, but to the
soil/grass around the ones you most want to protect.  Non-vegetarian
human  would do the job.   Men shouldn't have much problem with it,
after dark, anyway.

On 5/8/15 5:42 PM, thedonboyd at austin.rr.com wrote:
> If there is a deer repellent that (a) actually repels deer and (b) does 
> not harm plants, at least so far as Central Texas deer and plants are 
> concerned I don't know what it is.  Some people here think coyote urine is 
> a good deer repellent (and, yes, believe it or not you can purchase dried 
> coyote urine), and it may work.  We are having a wet spring and rain 
> washes away the reconstituted urine so this would not be the year to try 
> it.  In recent arid years the deer would, for want of preferred food, eat 
> any plant that wasn't hairy or spiny or thorny or outright poisonous.
> ---- Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>>