How many years I have spent planting garden after garden only to have them be eaten by deers. Oh, so many times I have look with disappointment at the the bare stems that used to be bean plants or the tomato plants that yesterday were loaded with beautiful tomatoes and today there are none.
And the hours I spent on the internet researching how to keep deers out of your garden . . . trying ever solution that I found with minimal success - hanging soap bars (which they ate, too!! - YUCK!!), buying chemical smelly stuff, and even human urine. None that worked on a long term basis. So discouraging.
BUT then I got an idea . . . if they don't like strong odors . . . why not plant mint around my gardens. My husband said it won't work - they would eat the mint like they do everything else. So late last Fall, I rooted a bunch of my mint cuttings and transplanted them around my gardens.
And the mint grew and grew and grew (oops - that's the only problem with mint - it does spread). BUT, it worked!! OMG . . . it worked!! It actually worked!! The Angels are singing!! We saw two deers in our yard a couple of weeks ago. They walked right past our gardens - didn't even stop. Not one leaf of our lettuce or beans have been touched - all my tomatoes are still intact!! Did I finally solve the problem of keeping the deers out of my garden? So far, so good!!! Now if I can figure what to do with the insects!!!
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