Nice! I hope you enjoy your goodies and the deer find food elsewhere. Does your son hire out (to Nashville, TN)?

It was worth the work. You will use it for many years to come. Happy growing!

Sorry Rob, he doesn't 🙂

This was definitely worth the work. It’s such an awful feeling to go outside and find your veggies and flowers nipped down to the ground. What anice garden.

That's a LOT of work, but certainly necessary if you want to have delicious, fresh-from-your-garden veggies all summer. It's also a lot of space for just the plants you listed. Will you can some?

Beautiful layout...hope you have a great gardening year. I have a "lovely deer" that visits

me too....Saw her on Saturday, happily munching on my new Lily shoots. Sigh...she is

a beautiful little thing though. ;)

Well done!

I had to put netting over the top of my gardens because the deer were jumping the seven foot 'walls.'

Nice!

No deer here, I would love to have something like that with a 'roof' tho, to keep the birds out - possums might be deterred by it, I think

And FWIW, I saw a tip years ago that if you lay wire fencing flat on the ground around the vertical fencing, deer won't step on it and can't get close enough to jump. No idea how well it works, but it seems worth a try.

carolb - I've read the same thing. My problem is that the ground is not level and I'd be afraid that the fencing would get caught in the lawn mover. My DH would not be happy about that at all!

Carol I've been doing that for years now and it does seem to work. I lay chicken wire (cheap) down on both side of my 25' long pea trellis and for certain the deer that roam our yard almost nightly would have chewed the pea plants to bits over the years. It can be a hassle when it comes to mowing the lawn it lays over, it would surely be a twisted mess. Cindy I have to drag it over a few feet (back & forth) with each mowing.

I always used fish line-clear fish line attached to electric fence pickets or any other non obvious post. I have roses which is deer candy and did this with great success. I have a deer and occasional elk bedding area behind me so strung line through the edge of the woods and along the fronts of my garden about chest height for them. They cant see it so it is disturbing I gather. If there is plenty of other browse around it works very well.

Nice garden area! So glad I don't have to worry about deer, rabbits are another thing. Probably possums too. Something has been eating my corn and okra sprouts.

Deer won't jump into an area that is too small. They are apparently unable to judge accurately what is safe, but they err on the side of safety. I would say that they won't jump over the long side fences. The end fences I'm unsure of. I used bean tripods, tomato supports etc as an additional deterrent putting them on the edges. My neighbor has a wooden picket fence and raised beds and they can see, but what they see is a lot of reasons for injuries; so they stay out.

I have a 12 foot high barrier made up of a 5 foot fence and 3 strands of wire above the fence. I also installed 2 foot high fencing with a tighter weave, about 1x2" at the bottom of the fence. The wire is a very thin solid wire and some of it stranded wire. The solid wire isn't very thick about the diameter of 50# monofilament. The deer can apparently see the wire even at night. They've never jumped since I was putting it all up.

If the garden in the picture was mine the only addition I might make is to run a wire about 8 foot high on 2 posts about 4 or 5 feet from the ends. They'll see that single wire and will have to judge whether they can jump and clear the wire.I'm pretty certain they won't make the jump.

I've seen deer jump a 5 foot fence from a standing start.

Wow, such a nice area. Please post photos as things grow. That also looks like a lot of work.

Looks like a good start for the season, Rose.

Please offer our thanks to your son for helping get the task completed. It is important for our young ones to become accustomed to helping with home and family chores - it helps them establish their routines easily when they get out on their own.

Hope your crops produce well, unhampered by chewers large or small, or diseases.

@vgkg - if you have fence with posts beside the pieces lying on the ground that need to be moved for mowing, would it work to just lift the edge far from the fence to stand it alongside the fence and use a few pieces of wire or string to fasten it there, then drop it back down after mowing?

ole joyful

It looks good! Love your tractors! Do you have Cherokee Purple tomatoes? I had a hard time finding them locally this year, had to order 6 plants online. They are not here yet.

ole joyful, that trick works when the plants are very young. But once they get larger then raising the fence cramps them up and can break the tender pea vines as it leans on them.

eta - here's a pic of them at first bloom. The fence (not chicken wire here but thin gauge cheap fencing) is on the ground. The pea bed isn't wide enough to lay the fence upright at the desired angle. The pea tendrils would love to grab onto it the blink of an eye ;-)