Our yard is clearley getting ready for spring. Onions are coming up
like crazy, the blackberries are pushing shoots and the blueberries
are flowering. The deer found my my blackberries this winter. I don't
want them wiping the beds out. The beds are about 32' X 120'...and
there is also my 40' x 40' garden that they wiped out last year.

Soooo....I got an electric fence. It goes around the perimeter and I
have put my 12 v solar chargers on a mower battery to give it power.
The sad part is that I have to help the deer learn to avoid it BEFORE
the tempting garden gets under way. That gets done by hanging tin
foil strips on the fence with peanut butter on them. The deer lick
them and close the circuit to the ground. They are not hurt, but they
are very startled! They go about 5' up and 5' out. After one or two
encounters, they stay clear. Bucks have to learn for themselves. The
doe learn from the experience of others in the doe group. Today I
moved the railroad ties out further from the edge of the beds and
pegged them down with 3/8" rebar. Next week, the fence.

Jim