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  • From: Toby Hemenway <hemenway@jeffnet.org>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Deer
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 07:23:15 -0700


Jeffrey Newman wrote:

> Any ideas out there about how to keep deer out of a vegetable garden

Thanks to some advice from folks on this list a few months ago, I enclosed a
garden here in Oregon with 2 concentric 4-foot high fences about 5 feet
apart, much easier than the usual 8-footer that Fish & Wildlife recommends.
We have very aggressive mule deer here; they tear down flimsy fences and
leap over 6-footers. They can leap high but not wide, so the 2 low fences
have deterred them. Added bonus: you can grow a hedgerow in the alley
between the fences. The fencing need not be tightly tensioned, just loosely
strung but fastened well to the posts so it stays upright. That makes
construction a snap.

I've tried all the scent, hair, soap, urine, fish-line, etc, tricks. Our
deer get used to them, and I have heard them chuckling as they head for the
food.

Toby




  • Deer, Jeffrey Newman, 06/13/2001
    • <Possible follow-up(s)>
    • Re: Deer, Kevin Topek, 06/13/2001
    • Re: Deer, Toby Hemenway, 06/13/2001
    • Re: Deer, Andrew Burgess, 06/13/2001
    • Re: Deer, rick valley, 06/14/2001
    • RE: Deer, Harold Waldock, 06/15/2001
    • RE: Deer, Xavier Dequaire, 06/15/2001
    • RE: Deer, Zeno Swijtink, 06/15/2001
    • Re: Deer, Toby Hemenway, 06/15/2001
    • Deer, Jeffrey Newman, 06/17/2001
    • re: Deer, bestworms, 06/17/2001
    • Re: deer, rick valley, 06/19/2001

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