The deer and rabbits are playing havoc with my perennials and fruit trees. They’ve chewed the branch tips off of my apple tree, decimated my azaleas, and are generally ticking me off. And since I’m limited by both geography and the calendar on the, um, methods I can employ to combat these fuzzy marauders, I have to resort to less-than-lethal deterrents. So off to the big-box hardware store I go, only to discover that commercial repellents cost about $27 per gallon! Wow, there must be some potent ingredients to justify that price. I must learn more. What are the active ingredients; let’s see. Hmmm, the first one is putrescent egg solids. Wait, I’m paying $27/gallon for rotten eggs?!? Maybe there’s
