milorganite - deer and rabbit repellent for garden?

[Jasper Husky]

Good day:

Recently at a garden center when I was looking at deer and rabbit repellents for my vegetable garden, a fellow customer volunteered high praise for milorganite keeping them away. I hope to avoid the building of a fence around the garden.

It is marketed primarily for lawns and apparently packaged at sewer facilities. apparently, the smell is what repels them. I don’t know if it is true but I heard years ago there was a issue of heavy metals

this year, I want more of my vegetables than the critters eat.

Has anybody tried it? How did you you apply it and how often Did you rake into the soil.

Thank you

 

[uconn1999]

I’ve been using it on the lawn for the last few years and I’m really pleased with the results and it’s substantially less expensive than say Scott’s.
I have noticed that initially the rabbits seem scare and we are overrun with them.
I find that it’s not long before they return, maybe 3-5 days

 

[Fishy]

Waste of time.

Good for your lawn, though.

Deer Scram and other pelletized deterrents do work. You just need to be vigilant and make sure you replace them at the proscribed intervals.

High fences and deer repellent plants work best of course - we live in the Hudson Valley and have a huge deer population - there can be 10-12 sleeping in my yard nightly. We planted things they do not like to eat and they do not eat them. I know they're running out of good stuff to eat in the late fall when they eat the leaves off the hydrangeas. That's the only thing they will touch and they will not touch it until they absolutely have to.