Ecnerwal wrote:
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Gardening in or near the woods, you'll likely need a more substantial
fence than a single hot wire 6" off the ground, though some
electrification certainly helps - but coons are not stupid, so you have
to try and be smarter than they are; and you might as well get the thing
up on a permanent basis; you'll need it, the critters are out there.

we don't have an electric fence on the main garden
area where most of the veggies are planted but it is
tall enough to keep the deer out. this seems to deter
the raccoons enough too (as long as they can't smell
anything edible in there).

what they don't know is that i bury about 150,000
worms in there each spring when i plant. they have
never got in them at all (i hope they can't read ).


songbird