I don't know if it would attract animals to your garden, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't deter them. My neighbor uses several of these, and we live in a small village on a street that is also well lighted by street lights. More than once last summer I watched a "gang" of young deer wander down the street late at night sampling everything growing under the lights. Before I could run outside to scare them away, they devoured several rose and dahlia blooms in my front yard. The only thing that deterred them was Deer Off, which I applied the next day.

My father used to set up a bright flashing light in the garden at night. I was so young at the time I don't remember if it really helped keep critters away. I think he stopped using the light once we strung a hot wire around the perimeter.

I have two of those lights. Two different kinds. They don't work well. The light is feeble and does not last through the night.

Jim

Yeah, most all of the solar power light kits on the market are good for keeping a path lit for 2-3 hours after the sun goes down and very little else. Very few of them provide usable light after 10-11pm in most areas even on a good day of charging. They're highly dependent upon the batteries they have in them almost more-so than how much light they've accumulated over the course of a day.

I like playing with solar lights like toys, and use them in the chicken coop for soft light at night in winter. I also keep a couple among my emergency supplies for when the power goes out. I bought some little post lights at Lowe's, and those babies are the best in terms of recharging fast and providing 4-6 hours of light.

I think lighting in the veg garden attracts night-flying moths you don't want, and hungry deer don't mind being seen. The most constructive use would be to use a motion-detector light in hopes that the scare factor would work. I've seen solar models.

Definitely sounds like they're not worth the effort then. Thanks.

A couple of years back when we were still living in an apartment, a parking lot light burned out(one of those ugly globe things on a post). We had to keep the entryway(little roof over the front door)light on for a time each evening. I had cherry toms growing against some lattice on either side of the door and I had a real bad problem with cabbage loopers and other cats that season. I assume the parking lot light, which was about 30ft away was keeping moths away from my plants until our door light brought them closer to my plants. I don't know if that was actually the case, or if the cabbage moths would have really been attracted to the light but it seemed that way to me. Maybe something to ponder on.