Does this stuff stink too bad to put in a small garden near your yard? How long will it help keep deer out of your peas?

It's honestly not that bad. Depending on rain an application will last 10-14 days. Heavy deer density areas, I'd say stay with 10 days or so.

I used it in a 'green field' garden last year, and was totally blown away at how well it worked. I had 4, thirty feet rows of purple hull peas that was never even nibbled on. Also, I had 15 watermelon plants that I grew right beside them and only had one scratch-mark on one of the perimeter ones before I picked all of them. I made a bunch of sweet corn too, and I don't think I lost an ear to a raccoon.

It may never work again, but I know last year, I didn't see so much as a deer track around my garden, grown in a spot that was mowed down pretty hard as a green field the year prior to and this past fall.

The smell is pungent if you stick your head in the bag, but sprinkled around the garden as a 'perimeter' and used on the rows as slow release fertilizer, I could only catch a whiff of it if I was standing in the garden right after it rained.