This Homestead Failed! But Why?

[woodman]

Thanks for all of this info--this is very helpful.

Do you have a link to what you found at home depot for a deer fencing-- a couple of weeks ago, I went out and found my new apple and peach trees were stripped bare of leaves b/c of a deer!! As a temporary fix, I tied pieces of Irish spring soap on them (on line it said that could help keep deer away). The leaves on the trees have come back.


Okay, but now I have a real problem. I was just out in the garden watering and I saw a baby mouse!!! What do I do?? I tried to trap it under a bucket but it got away.

This is the last stuff I bought and it has worked out well.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/allFENZ-...034B/301859957

I have purchased more robust netting/fencing some years back, but it was more expensive; not too bad though. For deer, you want 7' high at minimum. Get some T-post that will be tall enough after pounding in place (7' out of ground). A T-post pounder is helpful but with two people you can use a sledge. I also found that surveyor tape or caution tape works well wrapped at height around garden posts. It rumbles in the wind and the deer tend to shy far away. surveyors tape is cheap and I'd bet it would be enough even without fencing.

I have never had a problem with mice outdoors but indoors is a different story. I set traps for them and I feel like I've really scored when I hear the traps snap. Great white hunter! If you want to get a good belly laugh you can search for a post by Tumbleweed about shooting mice indoors. He even posted a picture with an enormous and vicious buck mouse that he vanquished. I would not be surprised if it was mounted and hanging on his wall.