Dick Adams wrote:

tuckermo wrote:


We pounded rebar into the ground, slipped half-inch PVC pipe over it, and
using standard PVC connectors made a simple "box." We measured, and made
sure everything was in 4-foot increments (8x8, 8x12, etc.). This way, it was
easy (well, relatively easy) to cover it with bird netting--we didn't have
to cut odd shapes out of the netting. We attached the netting to the frame
with twist ties. Two edges of the bird netting meet where we want to enter;
we just undo the ties to go in, and twist them up again when we're done.

This has worked fine for us for birds and small animals; I don't know about
deer--they can get pretty determined.

The white PVC pipe is not very attractive. If I were to do it again, I'd
look for a darker color. The netting, however, just "disappears" visually,
which is nice.


Thank you, I like this idea very much.

My solution to rabbits and deer is to plant habenero peppers
around anything I don't want them near. I believe humans are
the only species dumb enough to eat hot peppers!

I used to plant marigolds and onion to keep rabbits out of my garden. It
worked most of the time, but there was one difficult cottontail who
seemed irritated that I'd do such a thing. He'd jump over them.

Sue