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09-05-2006, 11:45 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening

"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
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Why are they congregating outside your house?

They're not. They just walk past on their way to school. Thanks for the
other suggestion.

how about spraying something really foul smelling (but benign) on
the hedge.
Any lad going head long in to it will get covered in the smell.

Interesting idea though again, I wonder if this would just increase the
tempatation to push your mate into it...? !

Worth a try. You would then have the stinking mate's mother and
friends on your side, applying a double pronged deterrent of social
rejection and nagging. The ideal stink to apply, would be comfrey tea. A
bucket of comfrey leaves soaked in a barrel of water for two weeks. This
is also a good plant fertiliser, so you have a perfectly rational excuse
to water it over the outside of the hedge . Just be warned, it really is
a disgusting stink. The kids will run past fast but you'lll be living
with it all day.

Fertilise your hedge in the morning, at lunch time and just before
home time, and they'll all be crossing the road to avoid your place.

Janet

I was thinking about maybe a tea brewed up with rancid cat poop. Collect a
decent amount, leave it in a plastic bag for a few days, brew for a week or
2 and then liberally apply to the hedge. Alternately some nicely rotting
road kill is a big bucket of water. Here in NZ we have fly traps which you
bait with a sachet mixed with water. After a day or 2 in the sun the water
mix smells vile. You may be able to get something similar in england.

rob