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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Forty years ago, a common pracice in Alabama to keep deer out of the garden 
was to string aluminum pie plates on clotheline type string around the entire 
garden (and I'm talking multi-acre gardens).  It must have helped; alot of 
people went to the trouble to put up a lot of string.  

I've seen bucks jump huge piles of pushed up trees.  They'll just smile at a 
fence low enough for a human to straddle.    bobford


--- On Tue, 6/24/08, jmroll AT bellsouth.net <jmroll AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: jmroll AT bellsouth.net <jmroll AT bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Garden pests, four-legged variety
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tuesday, June 24, 2008, 10:51 AM
> The problem we have with our gardens here in Alabama are
> with the four legged pests. Right now its coyotes and deer.
> Coyotes in the watermelon patch and deer in the beans. I
> have a two strand electric fence up. The coyotes go through
> it and deer over it. Oh, by the way the fence is working
> very well I can assure you. I learned a good lesson to not
> straddle it before making sure the switch is off. Any
> suggestions on how to stop these night marauders ?
> J Reb
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