Homemade Deer Spray

This week I bring you a recipe for something that you absolutely don't want to eat, but luckily the deer don't either! A friend of ours gave us this recipe for homemade deer repellent and it works very well.  There are so many reasons to use this over the store-bought blood spray and here are just a few:

-It is cheap and easy to make
-No chemicals
-Safe to use on flowers and around your vegetable garden
-(slightly) less smelly than store-bought spray
-leaves no visible residue on your plants

We use the deer spray on hostas and other plants that deer find delicious as well as sprinkling it around the base of the fence around the garden. Even though we have the tall fence, it doesn't hurt to steer them away from all of our veggies. Here is everything you need:

Mix 2 eggs, 1 cup Murphy's Oil Soap, 1 gallon of water, and 2 tbsp of Spreader-Sticker. You can get the Spreader-Sticker at a landscaping supply store and as its name implies, it helps the mixture to stick to the plants so it lasts longer.  After you whisk all of this together, let it sit out in the sun for a few days or however long it takes to get nice and smelly. You will need to apply it with a big brush because it will clog the nozzle if you use a sprayer. Apply once every couple of weeks, or more often if it rains a lot and this will keep the deer away!

The finished product...mmmmm....

Bev using the deer repellent on her hostas.

In other news, the shallots are coming up and here is yet another picture of the cold frames!