garden fence

[steveont]

so whjat do you have keeping critters outa your garden? i started building a rock wall around our house yard a couple of years back, hope to continue it even if i rent out the house for the next few years! on the inside i have a wireless shock fence too keep the hounds outa the lilies and other plants! we have chain link, page wire, barb wire and log rail fences on the farm here and a picket fence or two as well!

[bluelacedredhead]

I know from past experience that pagewire doesn't do much to keep Bambi out, and sometimes, it didn't even keep out the cows.
We used hotwire to keep pigs in the garden one spring to weed it, then we couldn't get them out of the garden because as intelligent as they were, they knew that there was something that hurt them at the end of the dirt....Wasn't that a Chore and a Half getting them out of there!

Now that we are on a suburban lot and gardening on town property next door, we can't put up a permanent fence. However, in 2009, we attached 36" poly hardware cloth to steel rods with nylon ties. Then sunk the rods into the ground every 4 feet or so. It kept most of the critters out. Except of course for Squirrels because they thought it great fun to swing off tree branches into my garden. Then play Ring around the tomato plants and eat all the tiny baby pumpkins....The first few pumpkinettes of 2010 might be sacrificed to 'the cause' this year by using them to bait the live trap....

I always wanted a white picket fence around a garden...Perhaps if we made one in removable sections I might be able to get away with it? One never knows til one tries

[jihadacadien]

I don't have problems with animals...at this time, but this year I'm gonna make a fence using screen mesh (like you use on doors) I'm using it so it'll cut wind down, but I suppose it could discourage small critters. and it's not that pricy for a long roll.