you never guess what I am up to at 1:33 am in the moring.

[ARKPAT]

If you use a fence idea ...... the ONLY ONE THAT WILL WORK is a ten foot high outer fence and a 8 foot inner fence with 8 foot between the two and no less running room inside in the garden area then they need to jump both inside to grow your crop ... you can break up a large area into smaller ones. That is the ONLY GREEN WAY YOU COULD do it and not make your neighbors in town unhappy. You still have a DEER over population problem; until it is addressed. I have GREEN PETA FRIENDS also and that was the way we solved the problem =)

I hope it might help out.



Pat

[jhanlon]

The best thing I have found for keeping deer out of my garden has been an electric fence about three feet off the ground. I just cut some saplings about eight feet long and use them to support the wire. I also tie string as high as I can reach above the wire and hang those CDs that they send you or give away in stores(free AOL minutes,ect) from the string. It surely keeps the deer out, but not coons, which are ten times worse on corn than deer !

Someday I'll have to share the story about my Father and Uncle using me to run ditches pheasant hunting at WAY below zero when Nature calls. I've hated electric fences for 45 years. How was I to know it was even on?

[stumphugger]

Electric fencing is used in New Zealand. Google New Zealand Electric deer fences. It might keep your neighbors from coming at you with pitchforks.

I used to work with logging operations, which start before 0-dark thirty in the morning and such work is physically demanding. One guy said he kept a loaded gun handy at home and anything that woke him up during the night, got shot.
He was sweating a bit because he shot his wife's cat the night before.

[dh]

I got a buddy in MI that said one year a PETA group put orange vests on wild deer (I'm not going to ponder the logistics of how) durring deer season to protect them. An orange PETA vest, preferably with a bullet hole and blood splatter, became quiet fashionable around town.