Perimeter alarms.

[MossRoad]

We use these to keep critters out of the garden:

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They use a water spray to scare away animals.
Not for every garden but they work well for us.

A friend of mine bought something like that years ago to keep the deer skittish. His mother in-law came over to pick tomatoes....

 

[Dftodd]

A friend of mine bought something like that years ago to keep the deer skittish. His mother in-law came over to pick tomatoes....

I would consider that a bonus That will teach her to show up unannounced

 

[Engineer42]

A friend of mine bought something like that years ago to keep the deer skittish. His mother in-law came over to pick tomatoes....

video would have been priceless I'm sure.

 

[bdhsfz6]

A friend of mine bought something like that years ago to keep the deer skittish. His mother in-law came over to pick tomatoes....

Yeah, we occasionally get sprayed as well.

It does have a timer for use only at night

 

[dj1701]

We use these to keep critters out of the garden:

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They use a water spray to scare away animals.
Not for every garden but they work well for us.

They work well; I just hated the hose stretched across the lawn to the garden, so I gave up on them.

 

[MossRoad]

I would consider that a bonus That will teach her to show up unannounced

He always told the story with a smile.

 

[MossRoad]

Yeah, we occasionally get sprayed as well.

It does have a timer for use only at night

I have some cheap ones. They worked pretty well. I'm gonna upgrade this year.

 

[MossRoad]

They work well; I just hated the hose stretched across the lawn to the garden, so I gave up on them.

It's a good excuse to buy all the equipment necessary to trench water lines to the garden.

 

[Dftodd]

It's a good excuse to buy all the equipment necessary to trench water lines to the garden.

When we have our house built and they run the water line for the house, I'm planning on having them drop two lines. One for a shop, and one for a frost proof spigot where we are planning on putting a garden.

We're planning on critters as well with a barn next to the shop, so that will give me water for troughs without having to drag a hose from the house.

 

[MossRoad]

We are fortunate that we live on sand. Years ago I took a plow share, welded it vertically to a quick attach plate, and used it as a cable plow to pull black poly water line about 8" deep out to the garden. It pulled very easily. In fact, once I got it pulled, I wanted to see how easy. I could pull it back and forth in the trench by hand. Anyhow, the garden is a bit uphill from the house. So I put a self-draining valve in a gravel pit at the low end. It's worked well for many years.