Irish Spring Deer

Well,  one of the few setbacks to living in the country is that the deer love to eat Amber's plants.  We've done all the things I'm sure most everybody who lives in the country has tried to have plants and not have the deer destroy them. Not too long ago a local lady offered a bit of advice that sounded sincere  and technically believable. She suggested that all you have to do to keep deer from making supper of your plants was to get a bar of Irish Spring soap, get a cheese grater and simply grate the soap over the flower bed and deer would be repelled by the scent.  Well, Amber tried it on her beautiful yellow roses due to the fact that every time she gets blooms on the plants the deer make a meal of them. Late the other night , I noticed the security lights (motion activated) had come on so I peeked out the window and standing out in the water sprinkler were several deer being lathered up with Irish Spring soap by their peers  while they were snacking on Amber's Yellow Roses. Amber's Roses are history, but we now have some of the freshest smelling deer in Mills County when they roam by the up wind side of the house.