In what has been a rough garden year, I bring you Great Tidings of Gardening Joy!
Yes! I am happy to share some good gardening news (for a change). After much research and many brainstorming sessions, after employing short term stop-gap measures (including used-car-lot flags and regular applications of that nasty-but-fairly-effective Plantskyyd) . . . we have arrived at a more permanent – and workable – solution for my deer issue.
A good friend of ours, who also happens to be a skilled carpenter and craftsman, designed a way to extend the shorter sections of our fence in a surprisingly attractive way.
It turned out to be such a simple solution. Clean. Elegant. Easy. And I think it will be effective, too. (As a reminder, the deer only discovered the “low spots” in our fence after the neighbors on either side of us made some drastic landscaping changes in their own yards, making my garden much more . . . discoverable over the fence. Now, I’m hoping my garden will be out of sight/out of mind. Again.) (I have seen the “gang of six” patrol our yard each day, and they don’t even bother to try to look over the fence anymore. Which bodes well!)
This gives me hope for a successful garden season next year.
(And I will surely need my garden respite over the next few years, so this is, indeed, a Glad Tiding.)
And BONUS . . . it’s such a treat to look out and not see those dang used-car-lot flags flapping in the breeze!
Wonderful news! So good to go I to the winter garden with hope on the horizon.
I like your fence additions! They are much taller which will hopefully keep The Gang out, no flags flying, and I find the weathered + new wood look attractive. I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed!
Oh, I hope that works like a charm!!
LOVE!! this is just brilliant, Kym!! Dear, Deer… find thee another yard! XO
Great solution! Happy Winter Garden!
I love this – it’s beautiful! Wishing you discouraged deer
Brilliant! Simple and good looking, too! I hope it works well.
Looks lovely Kym. I’m laughing a bit because my post today is about the deer snacking in our yard with Mabel nearby. They are a pest and they can be a nuisance and cause such damage…but I love having them around (as does, apparently, Mabel). The fence looks great!