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Re: deer fencing




--- rick valley <bamboogrove@cmug.com> wrote:
> >I was wondering if anyone has direct experience with the deer fence
> design
> >that uses two roughly 4-foot high fences about 4 feet apart running
> in
> >parallel.... 

> Toby; in my last garden, once the mulies were in, they decided that
> an 8 foot
> fence was an easy hop, considering the rewards. (...)
> I will not build concentration-camp style fences any more. (...)But I
have had nothing
> but
> difficulty in getting clients and design course participants to
> include this
> style of fencing in their mental list of what works.

Y'all have a convert here.  Deer are among the main predators of our
gardens at our Sierra Nevada foothill property.  We have in the past
fenced off garden and small orchard areas, but I'd been looking at
having to research different technology and materials for 8' high
fencing in order to surround a much larger area.  I already know how to
build 4-5' high fencing.

One twist I can add, in terms of how I'm thinking of implementing this,
is to construct it in sections over time - essentially adding 50-100
linear feet of protected garden/hedgerow/orchard space every year or
two until our "core area" is surrounded at some future time.  This
would make protected space available even during construction of the
overall enclosure, as opposed to "all or nothing" with a single 8'
fence.  And as someone (Yaya?) pointed out earlier, a linear space can
be serviced by drip lines fairly easily.

Build soil,

Loren


=====
Loren Davidson   Permaculturist, poet, philosopher, writer
loren@farwalker.com | http://www.batnet.com/beauty/
"We must create the future, or others will create it for us." - Gen. S. Ivanova, Ret.

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