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Old 09-03-2003, 10:08 AM
Henriette Kress
 
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Default Hot Sauce Insect Repellent?

On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 14:03:22 +0000, Larry Blanchard wrote:

We've had good luck with a homemade one (water from boiling hot peppers,
canola oil, and a drop or two of detergent) which repels rabbits quite
well. But you have to use it early in the season before they get used to
eating the plants. Once they've started eating them, it takes several
applications to deter them.


I just put powdered cayenne on carrots and lettuce (not all of it, just
that bit in the row where they'd chomped down) that hares have started
on... they didn't come back.

Henriette