Fencing Garden w/ Tractor Access

[kevin37b]

Set up a food plot so they stay out of the garden ?

 

[TheSpoon]

Set up a food plot so they stay out of the garden ?

I'm a hunter, so there are plans for a food plot or 2, but not near the garden. We are planning a small orchard in the general area also, so there week be a more accessible for source for them, but I've seen as many as 12 doe/fawn at one time so I don't think leaving the garden unprotected would be a possibility. Time will tell though I suppose.

 

[kenacp]

The deer in my area laugh at a 6" fence. I had to add two strands of barb wire on top to finally keep them out.

 

[beowulf]

I doubt a 6 foot fence will keep deer out. But if 6' will do it, then regarding a gate, use a fence panel hung as high as the rest of the fence - put in a couple of wood posts with heavy duty eye hooks and hang it on those- easy to lift off for access. The span will have to be reduced a bit though - wide enough for a tractor and short enough to be able to hang a cut down panel. May also be able to add a rebar at the top of the panel to stiffen it a bit.

 

[bcp]

I read about a gardener who kept out deer with a 4ft fence. He added sticks, at about 2ft intervals, that went up to about 7 feet. This fooled the deer who could have jumped between but didn't.

Like the red lines on this panel.



Bruce

 

[Mendonsy]

The deer in my area laugh at a 6" fence. I had to add two strands of barb wire on top to finally keep them out.

YEP! That's why all my fence has electric around the top. I have found that once the deer get zapped by that white tape they never go near it again. I can even put up the white tape without electric in some cases and get away with it.

 

[CCWKen]

Solve your problem by getting a walk-behind tiller. People around here would laugh at you for trying to take a tractor into a small garden. The exercise will do you good too.

 

[oldballs]

Solve your problem by getting a walk-behind tiller. People around here would laugh at you for trying to take a tractor into a small garden. The exercise will do you good too.

Ditto here. My garden layout was based on a walk behind tiller in a 50 x 100 plot. When I moved up to a CUT tractor with implements, I had to remove one end of the fence each season in order to work it with the Kubota. That really is a PITA but works for me since that chore is easier than using the walk behind tiller. Gardening with a "tractor" introduces all kinds of complications however.

P.S. I'll be 84 yo in a couple weeks..........is that an excuse to play with my Kubota in the dirt.

The first picture shows tilling with the walk behind.....the second one shows learning with the Kubota.:confused2:

 

[Gary Fowler]

I used one of the gates fromTSC for my wife's garden and made a wooden walkway gate.
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I did the same thing using a 16 foot tubular gate and attached net wire fencing to it. I first put in a 4 foot wide wooden gate for access but now that I put in the 16 foot gate, I don't use the man gate.
It all depends on how much you want to spend to have a gate.

 

[TheSpoon]

Solve your problem by getting a walk-behind tiller. People around here would laugh at you for trying to take a tractor into a small garden. The exercise will do you good too.

We've discussed it, however, I think in the long run having the tiller will be more useful. Outside of the yearly garden work (which could expand once my kids enter school), there are a few food plots I want to do, and our front lawn needs to be torn up, leveled and restarted (about an acre).