Keep Deer Out of Your Garden: Dogs, Repellents, and Fences

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By Lee Diamond

You have planted all of your vegetables and things are starting to sprout. Before you know it, you have a garden chock full of healthful greens, squash plants running wild in your yard and pole beans trellising upward towards the sun. Your ornamental gardens are in full bloom as temperatures rise and daylight hours increase. When you step outside one morning to check on the progress of all these gardening delights and find there has been a visitor or two munching on your plants. The tops to several plants are gone. Whole plants are missing. Even a few leaves have been eaten off of your maple tree, azalea bush or arborvitae. You’ve heard deer may be a problem, but you weren’t sure how to set up a deer fence for the garden so you didn’t worry about investing in garden dogs, repellents or fences. Or, perhaps you tried some deer fencing methods, but they didn’t work. When it comes to keeping deer out of a garden, what’s a gardener to do?

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