In these parts, everyone has been busily preparing for winter. We’re about 5 to 10 degrees off from all this precipitation changing from rain to snow. As many people have noted, you don’t have to shovel rain, but life is going to get more complicated soon.
As part of our winter preparedness program, last weekend (when it wasn’t pouring) we did the final shredding of the garden. We took down the hoop greenhouse, yanked out the last soaker hoses and took down the deer fence.
We have the world’s cheesiest fence to keep the large grazing forms out of the garden, but it works. Our fence is just 6-foot high chicken wire strung between t-posts that have had 1×2 boards wired to them. It’s not the most attractive thing in the world, but deer apparently aren’t very smart, so they’ve never just walked through it, even though they could.
It’s obvious that the deer get very near the fence, since over the course of the summer, I noticed lots of evidence of nibbling right up to the fence line. Now there’s nothing particularly good to nibble on, so maybe they’ve moved to better eating.
When we took down the fence we discovered that the deer weren’t the only ones getting up close and personal with the fence. Apparently, chicken wire is a great habitat for spiders too. It probably confused the arachnids no end to have their world rolled up and stashed away in the garage. But at least they’re dry, which is more than I can say for the rest of the yard.
In these parts, everyone has been busily preparing for winter. We’re about 5 to 10 degrees off from all this precipitation changing from rain to snow. As many people have noted, you don’t have to shovel rain, but life is going to get more complicated soon.
As part of our winter preparedness program, last weekend (when it wasn’t pouring) we did the final shredding of the garden. We took down the hoop greenhouse, yanked out the last soaker hoses and took down the deer fence.
We have the world’s cheesiest fence to keep the large grazing forms out of the garden, but it works. Our fence is just 6-foot high chicken wire strung between t-posts that have had 1×2 boards wired to them. It’s not the most attractive thing in the world, but deer apparently aren’t very smart, so they’ve never just walked through it, even though they could.
It’s obvious that the deer get very near the fence, since over the course of the summer, I noticed lots of evidence of nibbling right up to the fence line. Now there’s nothing particularly good to nibble on, so maybe they’ve moved to better eating.
When we took down the fence we discovered that the deer weren’t the only ones getting up close and personal with the fence. Apparently, chicken wire is a great habitat for spiders too. It probably confused the arachnids no end to have their world rolled up and stashed away in the garage. But at least they’re dry, which is more than I can say for the rest of the yard.