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Attn: Allegra No rose pictures for Shiva
In article CvFOa.9951$Ph3.1216@sccrnsc04, "Allegra" says...
"elfa" wrote in I'm in the city limits but the city limits include lots of undeveloped open space with lots of wild life. Being only 1/4 mile from hills loaded with wild oak trees etc, we get everything from deer to possum to skunk to racoon. What was left of my roses got hammered again last night and so did my neighbors. elfa Hi elfa, We too have deer and because of my distraction with other things we were paid a very unwelcome visit by them about three weeks ago that decimated an extraordinary show in all of the beds outside. My fault for not spraying but I was working on something else and everything was so luscious and beautiful that deer was the last thing from my mind. Here is what has worked for us. It is similar to a brand named DeerOff and it works. At least it has worked when we sprayed it ;) 3 eggs left outside at least for a couple of days in the sun 2 heads of garlic (not two cloves, two whole heads) 1 small bottle of Tabasco Put the eggs in a blender with the garlic and the Tabasco and add about 1 and 1/2 cups of water and blend at high speed to make a liquid formula of it. Strain carefully (it stinks but it works and that is what counts) into your sprayer and add enough water to the sprayer to make one gallon of liquid. ( You can make it weaker than this by adding another half a gallon of water and still will work, but I like to keep them way away from the whole garden so we use it concentrated to a gallon ) - It will stay on the roses even after rain, and the noxious odor will disappear to a human nose in a couple of hours but the deer will still smell it for at least 4 weeks. At least here. We spray ours in the evening to avoid any kind of disagreeable smells to us, and since the deer visit at night they learn that the place is covered with something they don't like and stay away. Good luck and I hope it works for you as well as it has for us when we remember to spray it ;) Allegra I've got the eggs outside...aging. About the garlic. I'm lousy at recipes! Do I use the cloves from the 2 heads or actually the 2 heads themselves? I just toss in the 2 heads (with cloves and skin still attached) into the blender? thanks elfa |
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Allegra No rose pictures for Shiva
"elfa" wrote in I've got the eggs outside...aging. About the garlic. I'm lousy at recipes! Do I use the cloves from the 2 heads or actually the 2 heads themselves? I just toss in the 2 heads (with cloves and skin still attached) into the blender? thanks elfa Exactly. We just peel the outer skin of the entire head and take the center core that is often too stringy for the blender to handle well - you know what looks like corrugated paper at the center of the head and normally has some strings at the base (the roots of the head) - but throw the two heads of garlic into the blender skin and all. When you strain the mixture the egg shells ( we don't crack the eggs inside the house, trust me on this one we just put them into the blender shell and all) are nothing but sand and the garlic skin is like a sheet of gelatine on the strainer. We have been buying the big jars of peeled garlic at Costco and keeping them in our second refrigerator in the garage just for this. It is always handy and it can be used any time. Allegra |
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