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39 Comments
I use those collars without fail. They have worked well. I can’t wait until those trees start to bloom in spring and yes I know you won’t let baby trees produce fruit first year or too, or I never have.
They say that planting thyme deters deer 🤷♀️
The electric wire is 3.5 ft from the fence. How high off the ground is it?
Ha! That does NOT protect the trees from deer here in Indiana! We have peach, pear, apple, cherry and numerous nut trees and they literally have eaten all the twigs all the way down to the plastic guards thus killing many new trees! We had to go with the chicken wire guards several feet wider than the tree limbs then do bone tar on sticks inside the guard edges to save the trees. 😅
Hi MI Gardner! I have been watching your videos for a couple of years now and gaining confidence, I started gardening.
I purchased 4 semi dwarf variety fruit trees.These include1 nectarine, 2 pear and 1 apple tree, but the shipping has since been delayed. Is it too late to plant them still? There due to arrive any day. I live here in metro-Detroit. Or can I store them in my garage or greenhouse till spring. Please Help😂😅 .
Where did you get them?
What are you doing for protection against the wind? It looks like winds get high on your stretch of land. In time the trees themselves will break up the worst of it, but until then, I imagine they will be vulnerable.
I thought those were for mice. They will eat the bark around the bottom girdling the tree.
Coyote decoys help to keep deer and geese away.
You can also put a second fence in 5 ft parallel inside or outside the first one. Deer won't jump in somewhere they think they'll be trapped. It's the only thing that seems to work here.
How have I never seen any of this happen before? We have so many deer where I live, but I've never seen them eating the trees or bark.
I hope you will make a food forest for the animals. Here in Rochester Hill, we do. All our pumpkins were set out and the animals had a food fest! How fun watching them bring their young to eat them. The squirrels are hilarious!
All well and good, but come spring the deer will eat all your buds and new leaves. Here in eastern Montana I cage my new trees, although I only have about 35 trees to protect. I enjoy your site. best of luck with your new land.
deer and rabbit will not eat bark if there is a grass or some vegetation in orchard. if there is snow you just need taller grass in orchard so they can eat it .
Put a double fence about 6 feet apart around the area with the trees. Deer have a depth perception problem and won’t jump over the first fence.
Would having a few large dual guard/family dogs help discourage deer, rabbits, etc. from jumping inside the fence to get to the trees??
alligator filled moat – will keep deer out.
what's a link for the tube guard?
Well done !
I'm 🙏🙏🙏🙏 & my 🤞🤞🤞 for for you !!!
Time will tell… ❤❤
What about sunscald in summer?
Thanks man. Can I ask you what camera you use? The picture is amazing quality.
I had the same fence as you and the deer were jumping between the electric fence because I had to much space.
Irish spring is also a fabulous rodent deterrent.
The maker should add a line with breathing holes.
I mean you can't really talk about an electric fence without testing it can you? haha give it a try for us
We hang old aluminum foil pie pans along the fence about 4 foot high between each post , the movement and slight noise they make in the wind or when the fence gets bumped anywhere tends to keep them far away .
Luke. Deer live in a mile of where you see them! They were born a mile away!!!
A few roosters helps.
I would like to say that plastic should work well, kinda wish i would have found that when i was shopping for supplies. Your fence might work and i wish you the best with that. But some of the things you are describing sound misleading and might confuse newer people. Concrete wire would be for deer protection, along with chicken wire which is a little weak. Hardware cloth is what can be used for rabbits and mice and voles. Welded wire would also be something for the small fences to keep out deer. Again this info isnt for you, just others who cant do what youre doing.
I quit trying to grow short trees within arms length for picking. Too easy for the deer. I cut all the limbs off my 2yr trees last spring and they shot up. The deer didn’t mess with them. I’d rather plan to pick with a ladder rather than watch the trees eaten by deer
I have open garden, no fence. We don’t have tons of deer, vast dense forest and I live edge of 45 acre field. I guess there is enough to eat. My elderberry bushes were eaten first year which made them bush out. Your states must have large deer population plus there are too many people for their roaming area.
Dogs inside a fenced yard has worked for us
That will help with voles but not deer, I think if you are worried about deer you need to go back to the drawing board. I nail 4 pallets in a square around each one. -John from PA with an 8 acre farm
In our urban back yard, we run a string of blue pennant flags about 3 feet behind and 2 feet above the 4 foot residential fence. Blue, because deer are supposed to be sensitive to blue. It's a physical barrier, so they have to make a decision whether or not they can make it through. Lights, alarms, and animal repellant have had no effect, I guess because they're urban deer and they're used to urban noise and smells. If the deer get hungry, if the deer get frightened, all bets are off–they're coming through. In a larger space such as the field where you're planting trees, I don't think the banners would work. But in the confined space of our back yard, so far, so good…
Stop the fast talking—at 70 ys. Old, cannot take your very good information you provide.
We bought plastic cutting boards from the dollar store, rolled and zip tied them for tree collars. We don't have deer problems, we have rabbits and rodents.
Smart..😂❤
Deer were there first