Deer Fencing to Protect Your Garden

You've gone ahead and planted the last tomato plant in your garden. You step back and look at the hours and days of hard work you have put into the garden. Two weeks later, you come out to check on your garden and see that all of your hard work is destroyed. The plants are eaten and the ground is torn up. The culprit? The nearby deer in your area have gotten hungry and have taken it out on your garden. How could this have been prevented? What can you do in the future to stop this from happening? The answer is easy: fencing. There are many different types of fences that you can put up to protect your garden, but there are three effective ones: net fencing, wireless fencing, and electric fencing.

Net fencing is one of the least inexpensive methods of deer fencing. Net fencing normally comes in six to eight feet in height. By going ahead and putting posts around your garden, you can drape this netting around the posts. By doing this you would be able to cover the tops and the sides of the garden, protecting it from unneeded intruders. The only draw back is that a buck could come along and lift the netting up and off with its antlers, leaving your garden unprotected again. This makes for a cheap, easy solution while you look for a better resolution.

Wireless fencing offers a better solution. Similar to wireless fencing for dogs, wireless deer fencing is a more humane option and offers less a chance for any interference. There are different sorts of wireless fencing. One option is the electric baited deer control. This option includes three posts that lure the deer with a scent, and as the website says, "repels the deer from your yard or garden with an electric shock". While this may not seem like a humane method, each pole is powered by two AA batteries, so the shock is not something dangerously strong. A more definite humane option is deer repellent from deerbusters.com. According to this ad, these pellets leave a scent that is only offensive to deer. Humans will not be able to smell them, so no need to worry about your neighbors complaining. It is also non toxic, so no need to worry about Fido or Kitty eating the pellets and getting sick.

Finally, the most effective option, but also most costly, is electric fencing. By placing this sort of fencing, you can give deer a quick lesson by putting about 4,000 volts out to shock any passing deer. According to finegardening.com, the cost for this sort of fencing would be about $250. Also, you can either have the fencing as a definite deterrent, by applying some of the deer pellets mentioned earlier, or you can put something tempting to deer on the fencing. By doing this, the deer would attempt to get what is drawing their attention, and be shocked in the process. The materials and the installation, as listed on finegardening.com, are quite simple and can give you the help you need in moving the deer away from your garden.

In the end, any of these options would be an effective way of keeping deer away. It all depends upon how many deer you have in your area, and how often they come by. Whether it be netting, wireless fencing, or electric fencing, a little bit of prevention can help any good garden into becoming a great garden.