deer repellants: update
Kathleen Sayce (Sat, 04 Aug 2012 12:53:41 PDT)

In my yard, the deer graze right past the digitalis to eat the plants they want. I tried planting onions around deer-choice plants, ditto.

Kathleen

Kathleen Sayce
PNW Coast, WHZ 8, dryish cool summers & mild wet winters, and today, almost 90F, the hottest it's been since last summer.

On Aug 4, 2012, at 9:00 AM, pbs-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

Digitalis is said to deter rabbits.... perhaps deer too???
Peter (UK)

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Mark BROWN <brown.mark@wanadoo.fr> wrote:

I have recently noticed that mint that has invaded my raspberry bushes has
kept deer from eating all the leaves of the latter.Melissa officinalis
seems to be another option...
Plants right next to these ones were stripped od young leaves and shoots
and these had no mint or lemon balm amongst them...
A solution at last?