gkrueger wrote:
> That's cool about the Deer... where I work I often have a few deer 
> gazing at me from about 8 feet away as I go out and walk to my car in 
> the evenings.
> 
> On the rose front though, we grow roses too; I always spray them with 
> Orthenex to keep the aphids from eating them (as we don't use them in 
> salads or anything ourselves).  I wonder if that would be enough to make 
> the deer sick to their stomachs hence forth not finding your rose garden 
> a suitable dinner plate...?
> 
> Garrett
> 
> Sam MacDonald wrote:
> 
>> Sunday night I was up late working on my sniper skills in DoD.  It was 
>> about midnight when I went up to bed, as usual I looked out the front 
>> window, 3 dear nibbling around my rose bushes, a doe and 2 yearling!  
>> I'm a little touchy about my roses, my wife loves em so I keeps em.  I 
>> opened the front door (understand I have a street light at the end of 
>> my drive way) and they stayed!?  So I sat on the stoop and talked to 
>> them for a few minutes trying to get them to leave. They wouldn't go 
>> so I sat some more until they wandered off.  I'm talking about no more 
>> then 30 feet. My driveway is 50 feet long and the roses are about 20 
>> feet from the street.
>>
>> I guess I would call that a "near life experience".
>>
>> I also keep a vegetable garden in the back yard and have had dear eat 
>> all my peppers, I now have a 6 foot fence around my garden.
>>
>> Sam.
> 
  Try scattering a lot of moth balls around the garden. The smell keeps 
the squirrels out. It might work on deer. YMMV.

Spencer J Sinn


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