Northeast Gardening: Garden Photos of '09......#2, 1 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
You have exactly the right idea. We originally attached ours to trees were possible, then we used metal stakes that we already had which worked OK. Some where too short so we wired two of them together to make them long enough, so they looked really crappy. Then we upgraded to 4"x4" wooden posts in some places last summer. Huge visual improvement. We will be upgrading to more wooden posts this year if possible. Our biggest issue is that the rabbits eat holes in the deer fence and attack the garden. The deer now have changed their pattern and have not been in the fenced part for years, or at least we have seen no droppings or deer damage. We have been adding plastic coated rabbit wire to the bottom two feet which seems to be working, plus one foot along the ground and pegged down so they can't do a Peter Rabbit and squeeze under the fence. We originally ran electric wire, but that was a waste. This is a collage of where we have deer fence. Most of which you can't really see as it gets lost which is nice, like behind the bench is all fenced or through the trees. The deer and birds can drink from the stream area as it is not fenced. The little deer are in the front yard which is also not fenced. I leave that to them. They were coming right up onto our deck sometimes and eating from my containers. That was just too rude. Now I have fenced them out of that part too. But I still like seeing them out in the part of the yard that I left to them. The came on the front steps late last summer and ate my caladiums. Good thing it was time to dig and store them. Just helping me out perhaps! Patti