Keith: [00:00:00] Good morning, Keith Ramsey with the garden supply company. These days, everybody that comes to the garden centers has deer or rabbit problems, and a lot of times, these problems'll follow a cycle. The rabbits get really out of control, and they're eating all the plants. The Hawk population only increases, or the Fox population will increase.And then there'll be very few rabbits.. right. Joe: now, in my neighborhood, the rabbits are winning. Keith: Yeah, absolutely. It's like some scary movie or something. There are rabbits everywhere. Joe: Yeah, I'll pull into my driveway at night, and the light will shine, and it will be three or four rabbits scatter like cockroaches. Keith: I've got a little beagle that loves to chase rabbits, squirrels and. The rabbit poop on the front sidewalk, I think, is just they're just messing with him, really. He's asleep, he's locked up, in the house, and they're out there eating all our plants.[00:01:00] Our neighborhood Joe: definitely does have a set of Hawks. There are two or three that in one of them is pretty. And I got a tiny dog, and yesterday the big Hawk landed on the railing to go downstairs where my dogs go outside, off the back deck. Wow. We sit in there. Like I saw that little dog, Keith: I wouldn't think right now a dog would even be of any interest. There are so many rabbits out.But, they're they, when people come into the garden center, and they've planted these plants, and they've lost all these plants, do you know the neighborhood rabbit? And there's Joe: certain plants that rabbits really they're probably the expensive ones. Yeah. Keith: It's always they're going to start with their favorite plant, and they work they'll work their way down, so it's you'll find these plants that, they're rabbit resistant, or they're not rabbits aren't supposed to like them. And once all the rest of the plants are gone, they're going to eat that one too. Yeah. You're trying to get people good advice. And eventually, the advice runs out.Joe: No, really like certain vegetables, but if it's served and it's the Keith: only food exactly. I want something green, and all there is Joe: spinach. Keith: a piece of bacon in it.You put bacon [00:02:00] on anything, and it tastes good. Deer are another thing. The population of deer and the more houses that go in, the more the deer gets squeezed. There are all kinds of things you can do to deter deer and deter rabbits. Repellents are one of them. They, you're spraying the plant down.You need to do it consistently. Every time we get torrential downpours or a week's worth of rain, you need to go out and reapply. And you also need to reapply when the plants are coming out of the ground in the spring. They're the size of a baseball when they get to the size of a beach ball. If you haven't resprayed it, the repellent has been diluted basically by the size of the growth of the plant.So you need to add more, more repellent. The other thing you can do is you can do fencing, and you can do it. A fishing line is a good deterrent for deer. You can run fishing lines just around trees in your yard. And when they're walking along, you can put flagging tape on it when they stop for the flag and tape, they see the fishing line, and then they won't pass through that.They don't like the deterrent. Being tangled up in fishing lines. Yeah. It's a good way of doing it [00:03:00] inexpensively and then Joe: nothing worse than walking through a spider web. Keith: Exactly. And especially this time of year in the fall, October timeframe, there are spiderwebs everywhere. It seems like they're saving up a meal for the winter, we carry several repellents, but I must garden as a repellent that we carry that it's made in chapel hill. It's a local, small company. It's all organic. It's a product that I absolutely love. I love the owner. I love keeping things local and spending money. It's been, I must Joe: like I M U Keith: S T I must garden.It's been widely tested. There ar