Protect Your Vegetable Garden From Critters With A Garden Fence
Did you know that the gardening world has thieves? You plant a seed full of potential, and then you work, and toil, and sweat every single day, to encourage the small seed’s growth. It pokes out as a seedling, maturing slowly into a small plant that eventually starts to branch out. Soon there’s a flower, and then a tiny bud of vegetable appears. You continue to tend your cherished plant, watching with excitement every day as the vegetable grows bigger until it’s almost ready to harvest. It just needs one more day to ripen. The next morning, you walk out, ready to pluck your vegetable from the plant to enjoy it in a meal, only to find it lying on the ground, the stem cut. Your vegetable is dirty and full of small bites that leave it ruined. The fruit of your precious labor has been stolen.
What happened is clear to anyone who’s ever tried to tend a garden. Your vegetables have been picked at by garden critters. There are a large number of small critters that live off eating plants and their fruits. Rabbits, groundhogs, and squirrels are a few of them, but which one came to visit your garden doesn’t matter. What matters is that your vegetables have been attacked and you need to solve the problem of future visitors. You’ll need a fence to protect your garden plants. Fences are easy enough to find in most stores and can be used to surround all types of gardens. The fencing you choose should be a bit over knee height to accomplish the job of keeping critters out.
Now, before you toss out the idea of a fence because you know small animals can climb, you should consider a few things. For starters, many of the animals that are liable to eat your vegetables aren’t very agile and don’t climb very well. Animals like rabbits and ground hogs can’t climb at all, so a knee-high fence is a huge deterrent. Even the animals that can climb are put off by garden fences. After all, even a short climb means it takes effort to get into your garden. If given a choice between an unprotected garden or a garden that the animal has to spend energy to get into, most creatures will pick the easiest target. When they do, you’ll be able to enjoy your vegetables in peace.