Beekissed
Mountain Sage
As promised...I will tell you what my mother has used for the past 35 years to keep deer out of her garden and that method has worked with 100% efficacy. We are in the heart of deer country and it is nothing to have a dozen or more deer grazing next to the garden, maybe salivating towards the garden...but never IN the garden.
An electric fencing charger costs about $35 at just about any hardware store....they last for years and years. The one my mother used when we lived off grid sent an intermittent pulse of electricity and was hooked to an old car battery.
Anyhoo...one strand of electric fencing wire placed at just over knee height to an average woman will keep out the deer. No fooling! You don't have to mark it to make it visible to them and you don't need more than the one strand and you don't need it any higher than the one mentioned. You see, deer are inquisitive by nature and they always move into human territory a little cautiously...and they will put their little noses right out and explore that wire. ZAPPO! They will not jump over a barrier that they cannot visualize easily~which is why elaborate, sturdy, very high deer fencing can be easily jumped unless it has extensive skirting.
No deer...big, delectable gardens....35 years of product testing. The Ol' Bat still has her original fencing charger after all these years and it still works well. Little investment, little work, big results!
An electric fencing charger costs about $35 at just about any hardware store....they last for years and years. The one my mother used when we lived off grid sent an intermittent pulse of electricity and was hooked to an old car battery.
Anyhoo...one strand of electric fencing wire placed at just over knee height to an average woman will keep out the deer. No fooling! You don't have to mark it to make it visible to them and you don't need more than the one strand and you don't need it any higher than the one mentioned. You see, deer are inquisitive by nature and they always move into human territory a little cautiously...and they will put their little noses right out and explore that wire. ZAPPO! They will not jump over a barrier that they cannot visualize easily~which is why elaborate, sturdy, very high deer fencing can be easily jumped unless it has extensive skirting.
No deer...big, delectable gardens....35 years of product testing. The Ol' Bat still has her original fencing charger after all these years and it still works well. Little investment, little work, big results!
