The Hot Sauce Repellant

Farmers in Africa are using a mixture of chili and motor oil on their fences to keep elephants out of their crops. You can read the article here in The Wall Street Journal.

I've got a hunch this remedy works. One year the deer were eating my landscaping in Wyoming. I doused it with a mixture of raw egg, water and cheap Louisiana hot sauce which worked like anything and didn't hurt the plants. I wouldn't use a motor oil mix on my plants but on stakes beside the plants it would be fine and less susceptible to washing off in the rain.