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 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list