2008 Garden Series - Keep the Deer out
When Kat and I first broke the ground on our garden spot you would think the rocks were air lifted in from every other field in the area. But of course that was the least of our worries. Bambi just loved what we had to offer.
Our remedy to this situation was to tie one of the dogs to a long lead under a large pine tree for the growing season. This worked well for the first three years. But in the fourth, as is most typical, the night before our green bean harvest, Bambi struck with a vengeance. Not only was the beans gone but every other green plant within a week had disappeared. Everything was eaten from tomatoes, squash, and cucumbers; if it was green it was in the belly of the deer.
I was disgusted, I did not even bother to till in the refuse.
Thus the fence from hell was created.
The bottom is four-foot high woven wire fence with runs of barbwire at six-inch intervals till it reaches a height of seven foot six inches.
Yeah Bambi jump this.
We then ran eighteen inch high with one inch weave poultry wire on the inside perimeter to keep Thumper and his family from munching down the greens.
All in all this has worked very well for protecting our crop from those who are not welcome.
Oh and the year that we lost all the vegetables to Bambi and family?
Let's just say that, we ate our beans and tomatoes but not in the vegetable form.
Hah!!
