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Thread #121641   Message #2660892
Posted By: Bobert
20-Jun-09 - 11:00 AM
Thread Name: BS: Defeating Deer in the Garden
Subject: RE: BS: Defeating Deer in the Garden
Well, before ordering the "deer fence" that we are in the process of installing around roughly 2 acres of woods and gardens, we asked alot of folks about their experiences with various methods that are used in this rural county... Some said that the slectric fence worked for them and others said it didn't... Seems that just about everyone had an opinion on electric fence and it was right about 50/50...

4 years ago I put up deer fence around anout a 1/4 acre where our vegetable garden is and it wasn't even the heavy duty and it has been 100% effective...

So, given that either way was going to mean one heck of alot of labor I made the choice to go with what I know works...

BTW, the worst part about the job is felling the dead trees in the woods... Now is the time to do it rather than after the fence is up... I also am putting in a gate large enough to get my Kabuto tractor inside and have slowly used the poor thing to crave out about a 1/5 mile of roads inside the fenced area...

We will continue to use Liquid Fence on the gardens around the house... We experiemented with a couple other products that were sent to the plant center where my wife works but they are not as effective as Liquid Fence... They are "Tree Guard" and "1 For All" in case folks are considering them over Liquid Fence...

But with any luck with the weather, a week from now the deer fence will be in place!!! Hooray!!!

B~