I have never heard of this and my Google searches just say that the deer won't eat it. He said that his Dad planted it around his fruit trees and doesn't have any more problems with deer eating the fruit.

I also have read that it will spread like wildfire and he said that as long as you keep it mowed back you are OK.

Experiences or thoughts anyone?

Panels of fencing laid on the ground beneath fruit trees helps some -- the deer don't like stepping on it. Ditto sheet metal roofing.

That is why I asked! I didn't think it would work!

I picked up some old pallets from our shipping dept. as a quick fix and laid them around my other fruit trees. Because I didn't think they would cross them, so far so good.

I'm about done picking the rest of the nectarines and I'm waiting on the few apples that I have. A late frost killed almost all of my fruit tree blossoms and fruit. I didn't get a single peach, cherry, or pear.