brooklyn1 writes:

On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:06:05 -0500, wrote:

brooklyn1 writes:

mjciccarel wrote:

Are there Herbs that will deter Deer from the garden?

Yes... plant a fence.

Yep, I agree completely.
Absolutely the only thing that has a chance of working.

I've tried everything else. If read the deer don't like this,
they don't like that. Well, the truth is, they may not like some
kinds of plants, but they'll eat them anyway.

Last year I put up a 6 foot high fence:

http://mysite.verizon.net/despen/fence/

I have high hopes for this working.

That's a nice looking fence.

Thanks. I like it too.

You could have gotten a bit more height
by raising the sections another 6" off the ground, deer wouldn't fit
underneath and they don't dig.

The town says 6 feet is max without variance.
I don't think I would have gotten a variance.

But most importantly having more space
underneath would facilitate mowing/string trimming... I learned that
the hard way by placing my fencing too close to the ground and then
having to reset it or live with weeds.

I don't have anywhere the fence meets the lawn.
The only thing growing up to the fence are the pacasandra.
Much of the back yard is pretty dark, nothing grows.
The few weeds I have to pull any way.

I truly hope you didn't set
your wooden posts in concrete (sure looks like you did), the concrete
will hold water in the posts and they will rot within less than half
the time they would have set directly into the ground... you can set
metal posts in concrete but never wood (if you're concerned with wind
simply use larger posts, the next size doesn't cost much more... and
you wont need to dig nearly the diameter hole as for concrete), and
occasionally a wooden post will prematurely rot in the ground (could
be a fault in the lumber), you want to be able to jack it out easily
to replace it, can't do that with concrete. Also if you live where
the ground freezes wooden posts set into concrete are much more prone
to heave. Next time you want to build a wooden gate check out the
various metal gate kits... makes for a far sturdier gate and a lot
easier to build. Typically wooden gate posts are 6" X 6"... wooden
fence corner posts are 5" X 5". Who advised you to set your nice
wooden posts in concrete?

My idea.

The entire fence and gate are pressure treated.
The 4x4 posts are specially treated for being in cement like that.
I think I'm down deep enough to avoid frost heaving.

There is gravel under each post and the concrete slopes away
from the post.

The fence is going thru it's first winter but the gate has seen
a few winters and hasn't moved. So I hope I'm okay.

I installed one 12 foot section of a vinyl fence and gate on the
other side of the house. It's nice but I decided I'd rather
look at wood than vinyl.