Bumping back up for Jean

I dunno what Jean is using, but I make my own. I mix up 2gal worth of spray. I whip up 3-4 whole eggs, a couple tbs garlic juice, a couple squirts of any HOT pepper sauce, and about a cup of liquid from Ivory bar soap I keep in a plastic container full of water. It's a goopy mess, and you have to strain it, but it works for me. Right now it's lasting 7-10 days. I have sprinkler risers, so a lot of my roses get overhead water, so it doesn't last as long as if you watered below.

Hey Beth, That sounds like an interesting mix. So you strain it and before you add it to your sprayer and then just spray all your plant? Never heard of garlic juice. Might just try it. Thanks, Judy

Hi Judy. I have used the same thing that Beth uses,but in springtime here we get a lot of rain and it washes off the roses.Some times here it comes a rain at night,and before I could spray again,deer came in and ate them all up,so last year I started using DEER SCRAM.it works great.Just sprinkle it on the ground around the drip line of the roses.Works for a m onth to 6 weeks on the first application,then later it protects longer.I went 2 months between treatments.Its about as expensive as the Liquid Fence,so this year I mixed up my own stuff and its worked for 4 weeks and deer came in last night and ate the buds and a few leaves off of 3 bushes.Sure glad they didn't hit my bed by the house yet.My own mixture I made was 3 boxes of Bloodmeal,a big bottle of garlic powder,big bottle of Red Pepper,and big bottle of Ground cinnamon.These spices are 50 cents each at walmart,and I have a little miorongnite fertilizer left and I added about a gallon of that to my mix,to stretch it out to go around all my roses thats not inside a fenced in area.To me,it beats having to spray every couple days,due to rain washing that egg mixture off the bushes.
Hope this helps.Deer are such a pain in the a---.and for the last week,I been plagued with critters digging up my plants.

Jean