Enjoy your new home Bobert, I hope the plants make it safely and like the environment.

I can probably get you a good recipe for goat curry if you want?!

Seriously, a sturdy fence over 5ft, or a dense hedge planted around a chain link fence. The links stop the critters getting through and they will keep the one side of it nicely cropped if it's not one of the poisonous kinds like rhoddodendron, laburnum or fir. They love Jerusalem Artichokes so be careful if you grow that!

I used to live in a house that had a goat in the back garden. It was old and not particularly fit, but even she managed to get up on top of the shed one day, so be careful your fence doesn't have any handy, goat sized stepping stones in the form of rocks, bales of straw, or outbuildings near it.

I'm sure your neighbour will let you take the goat poop away for fertiliser (it's vegetable so pretty good, doesn't burn and breaks down quickly) in exchange for some prunings or extra veggies (they like curly kale cabbage) but be warned, the uncastrated males stink.. and I mean STINK. So if you do smell anything funny, don't be blaming Cletus and the boys or Spaw too soon.....

LTS