Chicken wire garden fence

Learning how to build a wire fence will keep your garden safe from pests. Find instructions for building a wire fence that's sturdy and does its job right.

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While making your fence tall enough may seem an obvious tip, the exact height you need to keep certain critters out varies. The main reason you need a tall garden fence for most of the US is because of deer. Here is my experience with keeping deer out-

If you read our previous blog post on how to build a raised garden bed on a budget, then you might be wondering how we have kept our harvest safe from unwanted visitors. Initially we went with a ch…

If you had told me last March when I wrote on this blog about my rather grand plan for a new vegetable garden that I would still be updating you on it nine months later, well, I probably wouldn’t have done it. Suffice to say, I had no idea what a big project I was […]

Mission: Keep critters out

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I am trying to put up 36" chicken wire fencing on 4' green u posts. It is not as easy as I thought. 1. How do you stretch the wire so it is smooth? 2. Using

Bear with me. This post has been updated a few times since June 2012. The goal was to keep track of what we plant in the garden AND to find…