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Woodlots
weekly are the most effective.
Among the products applied once a
season, a sachet of Irish Spring soap
was easy to make, effective and
cheap." (Apparently it is the tallow
fatty acid in the soap that repels deer,
not the perfume added by the
manufacturer.)
Tom Hollow, a professional
gardener in California, says he has
found a way to keep deer away from
roses. He mixes a commercial pepper
spray repellent called Hot Sauce with
an antitranspirant named Vapor
Guard and sprays the mixture on the
roses. Antitranspirants are used
routinely by gardeners to keep foliage
from giving off moisture too quickly,
but they also coat foliage so the
pepper solution sticks and is not
washed off quickly by rain.
OMAFRA, in its bulletin, Rodent and
Deer Control in Orchards, says,
"Odour repellents such as blood
meal, moth flakes, soap and human
hair, have been tried with varying
degrees of success. Small nylon mesh
bags filled with an egg -sized ball of
fresh human hair and replaced every
four to six weeks have worked well."
Last fall I tried the soap treatment.
I called Colgate-Palmolive and
learned that they make two tallow -
based soaps - Irish Spring and
Palmolive bath soap. I bought a
dozen bars of Irish Spring (on sale at
48 cents each), cut them in half and
drilled a 1/4" hole in each half.
(Actually, after the first one, I drilled
the holes before.cutting the Kars
because it was easier to hold them.)
With used baling twine I tied the
pieces of soap to the branches of a
few walnut trees along one side of the
plantation.
The result? Success! This past
spring I found no evidence that deer
had been in the plantation near where
I had hung the soap. They had,
however, attacked the trees on the
other side.
I am not prepared to assume that
on the basis of a few trees being
spared for one year that soap is the
perfect solution. In the belief,
however, that it is worth trying again,
a couple of months ago I bought four
dozen bars of Irish Spring soap, cut
them in half and tied the pieces in the
branches of the walnut trees, 24
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