I've always liked the scent of Irish Spring, but have been looking into other uses for the soap. Moving into a new development as we will be in just about 3 months, I'm sure we will be displacing lots of small wildlife from the area. I intend to try to get along with them (including the snakes), but I hope to deter sneaky creatures from ruining my proposed garden! I don't mind sharing, up to a point!
So it seems that the strong scent of Irish Spring is a deterrent to many critters. We will see how it works! According to what I read, you can sprinkle shavings of Irish Spring around the plant stems and they will keep them relatively pest free. And it's all relative. I'm sure I'm the pesky critter to all the other critters who would like to invade my garden! I am really looking forward to growing a garden, as well as to provide some entertainment for the neighborhood critters! You know they enjoy the game as much as we do. But my aged brain doesn't stand much of a chance against a horde of critters! I wonder how Rocky is going to react to it all. He will probably ignore them when I'm not around, and then jump into action when I appear. "I'm workin' for ya, Mom!"
I am so happy to see that daytime temps will be lower in the coming week, at least if you can call the 80's and 90's "lower".
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We are in the 60's for now....& might see 70 for a few days...Our lake is still warm enough to go in....I started swimming the end of May until early Sept...I have had enough until next year....
ReplyDeleteMy daughter is using Hen Manure....the nursery recommended it to her to keep the chipmunks from eating her plants...She found it worked quite well....
Does she raise the hens herself, or is there a commercial source for it? I wonder how my Grandma kept her garden from being devoured. My memories of it are from the late 1940's/early 1950's, so I'm sure whatever she used was organic. She did raise a lot of chickens so she probably used the organic fertilizer they provided!
DeleteShe doesn't raise chickens...she bought it from the nursery where she bought plants..
DeleteIt comes in a container similar to a milk carton, only bigger...
It is so nice to have these lower temps. it has been in the 80's but I'm sure they will go back up agian. But I'll take the low to mid 90's.
ReplyDeleteI'm just hoping that we will have some good fall weather. It's so nice to not have to run the a/c also.
DeleteI read that Irish Spring does keep rodents away but so does peppermint oil. I tired it one time but bought the blue bar of Irish Spring instead of the original scent. The mice chewed on those so be sure to get the original sent bars. I also spray cotton balls with a mixture of peppermint oil and it works equally well. Good luck with the garden pests.
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