Squirrel Proof Vegetable Garden Fence
An electrified vegetable garden fence is recommended.
Squirrel proof vegetable garden fence. Bird feeders are one of the biggest squirrel attractants and it doesnt matter if your feeder is the fort knox of squirrel proof feeders as seed will always spill onto the ground. How to fence off the garden for squirrels. With an army of pine boards a handful of landscape poles a roll of rubberized hardware cloth and some bird netting we constructed a critter proof 12 by 24 foot critter proof garden enclosure and gave our garden a chance at a new life. Both ground squirrels and tree squirrels can decimate a garden bed.
As an added bonus the mesh is so thin that it is largely invisible and you can train vining plants to use the fence as a long low trellis. Zareba red snapr electric fence. Ground squirrels usually provide more of a problem because they dig or walk into beds. So if your garden crops are being molested by squirrels think about investing in this cheap and easy fencing solution.
Squirrels can wreak havoc on gardens digging up and eating flower bulbs decimating vegetable beds and greedily robbing bird feeders. Jun 1 2019 collection of cages built over gardens to exclude squirrels and birds. Garden pests how to animals and wildlife gardening the first time i grew a backyard veggie garden i kept discovering nibbled half rotten and abandoned tomatoes in our yard. I planted several armenian cucumbers along the inside of my fence this summer and the mesh was able to successfully support a whole crop of these monstrous cucumber like melons.
It never occurred to me to blame the squirrels that played all day on our back fence. Squirrels are agile and can drop into your vegetable garden from tree branches. They are also extremely. Use at least a two strand electrified garden fence with one strand approximately 3 inches off the ground and the second strand atop whatever other kind of garden border fence you have chosen to use for other.
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