First Hard Freeze

This year’s 1st hard freeze came on the night between November 24 and 25. Our Normal 1st killing frost date is October 21. We got an extra month of peppers. The frost damaged peppers will be blended with cooking oil and dish soap to make a deer and rabbit repellant. A few rotten eggs would be a good addition, but I don’t have any and I’m not sure I want to let perfectly good eggs rot to make a spray.

Don’t put the dish soap in the blender. You might be sorry. Blend the peppers and the oil, then add more oil and the dish soap. You can mix with water: 6 parts water to 1 part mixture. If you are mixing it in a pump sprayer put the water in 1st to prevent foaming. The best way to use the material is to put it in a hose end mixing sprayer. Set the sprayer at 22 and shoot.

I can’t guarantee that this will work for you, because last year a deer grazed on the ghost pepper plants. It is hoped that that was an aberration because it did not happen this year.



David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://davidsegrest.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/