Deer proofing your garden

[Mountain Heritage]

Just wondering what you guys do to "deer proof" your garden? I am expecting a Good Citizen's Award this year for feeding the dirty, rotten, sneaky, no good........ Well, you get my point! Over the last week and a half I have lost almost 1/2 of my beets, had a pepper plant stomped to death, a cabbage with a hole through the outter leaves, 3 of my five tomatoe plants pruned nicely on one side and just about every one of my radishes EATEN! Yep, I'd say hunting season is going to open early this year around here - anyone wanna come set up a tree stand? I put up a fence around the garden this year to "detur" them, I even kept it about 3 or 4 feet back from the garden with regular lawn between the garden and the fence. That seemed to work for the first two or three weeks, then I guess the garden just got too tempting. So I added a string of barb wire around the top. Still no help so I added a string of electric fence on top. As every one of them were :biggrin2.gif: :biggrin2.gif: :biggrin2.gif: :biggrin2.gif: all the way through my garden and on their way home..... Well, I added another string of electric fence on top again with the bars of Irish Spring soap hanging off the wire too. I now have regular fence with a string of barb wire and two strings of electric fence that now reach almost eight feet into the air!! Yes, it looks STUPID!! I was trying to make it look as inconspicuous as possible when I started....YEAH RIGHT! So needless to say, I think that next year it is all going to be removed and just put up regular 8 foot fence on wooden posts and I will have to deal with looking at the wire. Either that and have a garden, or I rip it all out, plant grass seed and then sit on my Cub with a couple and mow the grass that grows!!! Yep, I am a little ticked at "wild life" around here in the last month. Errrrrrr