RE: This is Why I Like Deer Fences
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I have a 5 foot high fence around the entire back yard to keep the deer out. Deer are capable of jumping a 5 foot fence, but they never have here. I suppose there's enough other stuff for them to eat here in town, so they don't have the feeding pressure to jump the fence. If I leave the gate open overnight, the deer will wander into the back yard and sample the garden. They seem to really like tomato plants for some reason.
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I have deer fences up to about 7 feet just to be safe. But I'm also growing hedgerows to one day replace the deer fences. The hedgerows are planted so the outside plants are good for deer to eat but are plants that get denser with more browsing. The plan is that the deer will just move along the hedgerow browsing the outside plants and not try to get in. Plus, I'm growing the hegerows to be 15-25 feet tall and very dense and 7-10 feet thick :)