Walking Widdershins
First we're sacraficing
roosters, now I find myself walking widdershins around the garden
sprinkling a foul-smelling fluid on the ground. I haven't
resorted to
witchcraft, though, in my attempts to repel the deer --- it just looks
like it.
We're trying a new technique in our ongoing battle against the deer ---
sprinkling aftershave where the deer are entering our garden. We
got the idea from a landscaper who told us to go to the dollar store
and buy three different kinds of cheap cologne, aftershave, soap,
etc. The trick seems to be variety, so we plan to use a different
kind every week or so. Today I
circled the whole garden with the foulest aftershave I've ever smelled,
and I was certainly repelled. Now we'll just have to wait and see
what
the deer think of it!
Rather than turning this into one of those massive blog posts I'm
guilty of, I'm putting a rundown of all of
the deer repellant techniques we've tried on our new resources
page. Check it out!
| We finally solved the deer in
the garden problem, and the solution was so elegant we gave it a new
website. Check out our deer
deterrent website for free plans! |
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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