In article , John Bachman
wrote:

On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 19:44:48 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:


"Gary & Karen" wrote in message
...
Have you tried the sonic deer repellents?. How about the motion detector
water spray? Last the fertilizer made from sewage sludge?

Gary


This weekend, I'm padlocking my 16 year old son and two or three friends to
stakes driven into the ground near the garden, and feeding them nothing but
baked beans, Doritos and chocolate milk. We'll see if that dissuades the
deer. This group of kids is capable of making the atmosphere explosive even
in large auditoriums.


Hang bars of Irish Spring soap around the garden. Leave the wrapper
on and drill a hole through, put some twine or hanger through the
hole. The wrapper protects the soap from the weather.

The Irish Spring attracts leprechauns. Put a case of cheap beer
nearby where the leprechauns will find it. They will get to partying
and the noise scares off the deer.

The soap will last weeks but you will have to replace the beer
nightly.

John

You forgot the other important method. Get some Bounce fabric softener
cloths & make little flags out of them all around the garden. This will
make the leprechauns think the flags are for a soccer game that'll be
starting soon & they'll sit up in the branches waving the flags drinking
the beer & waiting for the game to start, & as everyone knows, deer will
not go near shrubs that have leprechauns sitting in them.

Of course, if you live in a part of the country that has no leprechauns,
none of these urban folklore methods work for shit. The repellants that
actually work in controlled studies contain either blood or putrescent egg
solids. Repellants that rely on bitter taste or soapy or perfumy smells
work primarily in the imagination of people who are bad observers of
nature.

-paghat the ratgirl
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