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This is a straightforward and inexpensive bamboo fence, created from bird netting and bits of bamboo which were available from the neighbor's yard. The gardener sought something that would be attractive and inexpensive, she wanted to recycle materials that were in a nearby, and she required something that would keep out rabbits, groundhogs and deer. The bamboo poles are influenced into the earth about one ft .. They're spaced three to four feet aside, and there is a piece of twine that connects each of the poles. The netting is then just hung directly on the poles and attached to the twine. It is rather simple. This entire fence only required about a half of a day to construct. It only took about 30 us dollars well worth of materials and it's been quite effective, up to now. The bamboo poles will rot over time and have to be replaced.

Now, you'll observe that this fence is merely 5 feet in height. & most deer fences are 7 to 8 ft in height. This fence is working, however, because the garden is right next into the house, and deer don't like to jump into confined places. The only real potential negative with this fence is that groundhogs and rabbits could chew up through the netting. I want to demonstrate our vinyl-coated line deer fence. Here at the Home and Garden Information Centre this is a vinyl-coated welded line, the openings are about 2 by 2 and a half inches wide.

And it's a simple fence, we've used this to keep out groundhogs and rabbits. It's about four ft high, by 50 foot long for every roll. And we've 6 feet tall metal fence posts. And we put them approximately,every 10 legs round the perimeter of the garden. It will take probably an afternoon to put this together on your own. It really, you really only need one individual to do it, but it'll probably go quicker if you two. And it is simple which is inexpensive. It is about $per linear ft . to install this fence. And it will last for quite a few years like this. It doesn't corrode or anything like this. This is mostly for someone that desires a quick and easy way to keep groundhogs and rabbits out of their garden. This is a dark polypropylene fence, known as deer netting. It's foot vast and the mesh is beginning is by 2 inches wide. We're at a sizable community garden, and they've determined this type of fencing, because it's relatively inexpensive and easy to install.

And it's really very good at keeping deer out. They've used heavy fence posts because of this fence, but at home you could use a much lighter post. There's a piece of vinyl-coated wire that is attached from fence post to fence post, that's very important for promoting this netting. And in the bottom, the fence is bent and buried with land, and that's to keep rabbits and groundhogs from digging under it. This fence costs about two dollars per linear ft .. This could be very best for any size garden, it isn't very expensive, you can install, it kind of mixes in with a green track record of trees and shrubs, and it'll last 15 to 20 years. Here is an an example of a solar powered electric fence. It's primarily to keep the deer out of the garden. But I've also put this plastic material on the inside to keep the rabbits out.

This is made of yellow and dark-colored plastic material braided with wire in it. It had been very easy to create, of course, if you touch it if it is on, it isn't a continuous distress, if an pet or person came up up to it, it wouldn't really injure you, you'd feel it, but it wouldn't be that bad. Nonetheless it will, it frightens the pets enough to keep them away, and in the long run, it costs me about 300 us dollars for all the materials for this. Which is about about 2 dollars maybe a bit more than 2 dollars per linear foot, to construct it, and it took roughly, I'd say, a day, a day and a half to put it all together, after the posts were put in, and around the corners.

I would suggest this kind of fence for those who that's in a area and doesn't want an eyesore in the back garden. This is a higher tensile wire fence, it's built with large corner posts made out lumber, and 17-gauge electric fence cable. The gardener preferred this kind of fence to exclude deer, and to enclose a sizable garden inexpensively. The other key, is that this type of fence works perfectly on uneven and sloped ground. Fence costs about 195 us dollars in total, that's to enclose 3000 square foot of garden space. That comes out to about 80 cents per linear ft ., so it is relatively inexpensive, it'll last 20 to 30 years with very low maintenance..