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In reply to the discussion: Milorganite Fertilizer [View all]

Denninmi

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2. I used it last year in my garden to repel the deer.
Wed Mar 7, 2012, 11:06 PM
Mar 2012

It did work. It is rather smelly.

The vegetables seemed to like it.

And no, I'm not afraid of using it on food crops that are grown up above it, not in close contact -- tomatoes, corn, peppers, that sort of thing. I don't think I'd use it on salad greens, although the EPA has no restrictions on its use for food crops. Frankly, all of the deer poo that I had the prior summer in the garden, when the dumb things were out there grazing and staring at me from 20 feet away, bothered me more in terms of a contamination risk. At least Milorganite is sterilized.

Milorganite Fertilizer [View all] kjackson227 Mar 2012 OP
I've used it before Joe Shlabotnik Mar 2012 #1
I used it last year in my garden to repel the deer. Denninmi Mar 2012 #2
It bothers me that there's no phosphorus in it... kjackson227 Mar 2012 #3
Well, that depends on what's already in your soil. Denninmi Mar 2012 #4
Okay, thanks. kjackson227 Mar 2012 #5
We use this all the time Worried senior Mar 2012 #6
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