Nyssa wrote:
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Yep, and if they can't see through it, the sun doesn't get
through to the plants inside it.

Plus privacy fences are a no-no in the deed covenants here
except for around swimming pools (which the water table here
wouldn't allow anyway).

this is just a wire fence i'm putting up. nothing that
blocks much light.


Nyssa, who had a suggestion of hanging Irish Spring soap around
the garden, but is wondering if that would really work since
the deer could always get around the soap one way or another

it works for a short time, like all deterrents, once they
get used to it they'll come back. i've used all sorts of
things and none work long or consistently enough. all you
need is one failure and the deer can take out the garden for
an entire season's production. which is why i try to plant
a variety of plants and also different gardens so they don't
always get everything, but for our veggie gardens the fences
keep the worst of the critters out (not entirely because we
have the wrong fence up for that area ).

i'm just tired of the efforts in this one garden to go to
waste because it has very good topsoil (brought in when they
built) and we don't really have any other garden soil like
it so i want to put it back into production but i won't make
the effort if i can't keep the deer/rabbits/groundhogs out
i'm not letting that garden space go back to lawn.


songbird