You can add a strand of electric fence every 8" to prevent that. It doesn't have to be live to deter them.Thanks, I thought I read people on here were raising them up to prevent reaching over to nibble.
You can add a strand of electric fence every 8" to prevent that. It doesn't have to be live to deter them.Thanks, I thought I read people on here were raising them up to prevent reaching over to nibble.
If the fence is so close to the trees, it has to be taller; I've seen larger fencing schemes for gardens and orchards which don't require super high fences but instead two fences one outside the other, both short enough that the deer could jump either, but it can't jump both and they don't want to jump into a small space between. If you have too big a space underneath, deer can also go under...Thanks, I thought I read people on here were raising them up to prevent reaching over to nibble.
I lost one of the trees I planted last year because for some unexplained reason I didn't put the mouse guard up on that tree. I will be cutting it off and trying to graft a scion onto another tree.Voles are a terrible problem this year as well, our neighbor lost 50 some apples this year, up to 4" in diameter due to girdling
Depending on how far down into the ground they girdled, he may be able to save some of the larger trees by bridge grafting. Extension | Bridge Grafting – Saving Tree Life Despite the Odds
I have never done bud grafting but would like to try; do that in the fall, don't you?I haven't seen them, but the claim was they were basically eating down into the roots. I've saved .. or at least repaired a couple of yard trees some friends hit a bit to hard with the string trimmers with that technique and one cherry my moms dogs took out in her garden. It's a good trick when it works for sure!
The ones I saw on our hillshide they were mostly above that.. so I'm kinda hoping maybe the root stock will come back and I can get a little rootstock farm going (it's definitely dwarf dwarf though and I've been moving to more semi-dwarf or even - for the cider apples - full sized) so I'm kinda meh either way on the ones I lost.
I have done like 20 some scion to rootstock grafts this year... and have some coming in for bug grafting a failed prune plum rootstock (the OG graft looks like it failed maybe 5 or 10 years ago.. but the rootstock is a healthy small tree). That's all kinda new to me - I've done a little branch grafting and a couple of bud grafts but not anything at this scale.. we'll see how it goes, it's a learning experience![]()
I have never done bud grafting but would like to try; do that in the fall, don't you?
There is an old pear tree on my family homestead which I have been trying to graft from for years with no success. This year isy last chance, the property will be going on the market on the fall. We did have somebody from Fedco Trees come to try and identify it, and also try to get some trees started; but I lost her number and she has since moved on.
I read this in the "perimeter alarm" post, it might just work well for the deer, but probably not for the other varmints!Have you tried a single strand PB coated electric fence?
An uncle had a large watermelon garden that the whitetails loved. His solution was a 1 strand electric fence which he then "coated" with peanut butter. He'd put a glob of PB in a glove and just run the wire through the glove, giving it a light coating. The deer would lick the wire, get a severe shock and not come back.