RobinD said:Am rethinking the repellent if it smells like cat urine!
I'm far from sure whether the ordinary deer and rabbit repellent works well. But the rabbit in my front yard that is getting increasingly bold about ignoring me seems to be eating other things after I sprayed repellent on plants it had previously eaten. So that is some evidence that repellent works.
A human only smells the clove oil in that repellent and within hours after application, that smell goes from too strong down to being pleasant, at least to me. I like the smell of cloves. There are several brands that all seem to be the same formula. Even at the initial too strong, it isn't a particularly unpleasant odor. The other ingredients that animals are supposed to smell sound unpleasant when you read the label, but you would never guess by the smell that it is anything other than cloves.
Something is eating my Viola Sororia in my back garden almost as fast as it grows. That was despite use of the repellent. I don't think the rabbits go there. I don't think it is the deer. I don't even know whether it is animals vs. bugs. But other than that, none of the plants with fresh applications of the repellent have been eaten, including plants that get eaten otherwise.
Meanwhile, the weed and feed had a dramatic (hopefully not just short term) impact on the dandelion bloom. When I applied it, the first modest fraction of the dandelion were blooming (which tends to massively accelerate). Those flowers promptly flopped over and never went to seed and no more bloomed. The dandelion leaves are all still green, but hopefully the plants are dying. The Viola Sororia in the lawn (which nothing ever eats) wilted a little from the weed and feed, but not enough to stop blooming. The weeds that aren't blooming yet are even harder to judge. But if the impact on dandelions lasts a while, that alone is worth it.
