Re: deer...The Recipe

Jose Almandoz. wrote:
> 
> Dear Diana,
> 
> I got wildboar visitors in my garden that enjoy playing as bulldozers.
> Wonder if your egg/clove cocktail would be useful???
> Could you please give the exact recipe (number of eggs, volume of water,
> etc...) so I can give it a try?. Where do you buy the essential oil?. Is it
> very expensive?
> If only I could find a way to keep wildboars away from some areas... I
> cannoy use electric fence as this garden is open to the public, and chicken
> wire is too weak for their amazing strength, but I'm dying for planting some
> lilies and with these beasts wandering around I just won't risk;they relish
> on undergound things, although everyday I see with relief that they seem to
> leave the emerging daffodils untouched...
> Do you think your recipe would also be useful against sheep damage?. I got a
> large area that currently is grazed by sheep and is planted with young trees
> that have to endure a lot of damage, especially when in leaf. Can your
> formula be sprayed safely over all kinds of plants?. I'll try, I'll try,
> I'll try!!! :-)
> 
> Jose
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> De: Diana L. Politika <diana@olympus.net>
> Para: perennials@mallorn.com <perennials@mallorn.com>
> Fecha: domingo 18 de enero de 1998 18:07
> Asunto: Re: deer
> 
> >Having just built a nursery on the State Hiway (for vehicles, and the
> >deer use the rear 2 acres for their own highway), I have been privledged
> >to serve up dinner for our fine freinds on several occasions.
> >
> >Take note that deer don't seem interested in herbs.  Take note also that
> >egg concoctions seem to have a deterring effect on deep appetites.
> >I mixed eggs with milk and poured it through a strainer.  Added a bit of
> >dish soap to break the surface tension of the water, some horticultural
> >dormant oil (to help it stick thru rain...and I live next to the Olympic
> >National Rain Forest!), and the secret ingredient......essential oil of
> >clove.  About 20 drops in a 2.5 gallon sprayer.  Top the entire tank off
> >with water, lock the handle down and mist everything in sight.
> >It took me 1/2 hour to cover the entire nursery and it only took one
> >tank.
> >The deer like the heuchera out at the sign, and I sprayed that also.
> >So far, they have not been back, and it's been since early December that
> >I sprayed last.
> >I'd advise changing oils periodically ....clove, cinnamon, eucalyptus...
> >--
> >The Greenhouse Nursery
> >81 S. Bagley Creek Road & Hwy 101
> >Port Angeles, WA  98362
> >(360) 417-2664
> >Zone 8
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Okee dokee....here's the recipe.
Mix 4 eggs up with a cup of whole milk. (I read that the milk will turn
sour and the deer can smell it)  Pour it thru a strainer into a jar.
Add 10 drops of dish soap.  Add 20 drops of essential oil of clove. 
This can be purchased in health food stores.  It costs $4 for 1/4 ounce
for clove and cinnamon oil, 2.49 for 1/2 ounce of lemon oil. (I don't
use lemon oil.  I'm just showing you that most essential oils are very
reasonable.)
Add 6 Tablespoons of horticultural dormant oil.  Put this into a 2.5
gallon tank sprayer and top it off with water.

I think that the real factor here is the oil.  Everything else is just
for stickum and spreadum.  I was fairly careful not to get this stuff on
myself as I sprayed, but I could still taste cloves after 2 days.  You
know the effect of cloves; how you kind of turn numb?  
They say that deer will get used to everything after awhile, so that is
why I suggest changing the oil every now and then.
Wild boar?  All I'd suggest for useful info on that one is....you ever
notice how pigs won't foul their living area?  Perhaps if you were to
make Pig Tea?  Ugh.  Glad it's your problem and not mine.
-- 
The Greenhouse Nursery
81 S. Bagley Creek Road & Hwy 101
Port Angeles, WA  98362
(360) 417-2664
Zone 8
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