Bars of Soap

by Josie
(Ohio)

I take dial soap (this year I'm switching to Irish Spring) and push a hole in a half bar with a philips head screwdriver. Then I take a plastic cable tie, put it through the hole in the soap and hang it around whatever shrub or sapling I want to protect. The soap's stinky scent has been effective for me in repelling the deer. However-if you hang them around a sitting area-you, too, get to breathe in that lovely scent of Dial soap-but aside from the occasional drawback of the whiff of Dial, I've found it is both cheap, effective and lasts the whole season!