It was a dark and stormy night, and as the people of uk.rec.gardening
huddled around the fire, Dave Liquorice told them this story:

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 13:06:20 +0100, X wrote:

Are there any other suggestions out there on how a gardener may keep
his plants safe from sheep ?.

Put up a fence? 4' high should do, make sure they can't push it over.

They can also learn to open gates. Make sure your gate is
on a bolt rather than a latch.

My mother was brought up in Ebbw Vale. She tells a story of
a ram that got into everyone's gardens by squeezing its head
through the gate bars and butting up on the latch. So an
enterprising neighbour fastened an iron bar across the gate
just below the latch. The ram knocked itself out.

Rhiannon