Deer and your garden

[dj1701]

How do you keep deer from eating all your fruit and vegetables?

Thanks
Dave

 

[DGZRT]

Go big or go home

 

[oosik]

We had a four foot mesh fence around our garden. Right next to the garden was our orchard. Half an acre of the sweetest alfalfa I could grow. We always lost some apples to the deer and raccoons. Nothing worth getting your shorts in a twist. The deer enjoyed the alfalfa so much - they never bothered the garden.

 

[scootr]

Sounds like meat and potatoes.

 

[dj1701]

Go big or go home

Nice but won't work for me.

 

[DGZRT]

Nice but won't work for me.

A short fence and Marigolds planted all the way around it . Deer and Rabbits don't like the smell.

 

[ArlyA]

Gosh we hate them stinken deer. We call them "city rats" and wish somebody would shoot them. (we live in town, you can't) They eat everything we grow and eventually gave up. Can't believe people post pictures of them in "cool nature photos" thread.

 

[Eagle1]

No deer near the gardens

 

[Eagle1]

Gosh we hate them stinken deer. We call them "city rats" and wish somebody would shoot them. (we live in town, you can't) They eat everything we grow and eventually gave up. Can't believe people post pictures of them in "cool nature photos" thread.

But man they taste so good...... and watching deer in the woods is just fun. I spend way more time watching deer than I should.

 

[kenmbz]

7 foot chicken wire and stapled to ground to keep groundhogs out around a 12" raised metal bed.
I find anything less than 6 feet or electric the deer laugh at.

I had a bigger garden and just gave up. Either wrap it completely or go small and high like I did

Deer around here will even eat forsythia and holly, so not much they won't go after.
Groundhogs will eat Marigold flowers, I found that out the hard way.