How I Learned to Live With the Destructive Deer in My Garden

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4. I decided not to garden rather than wage war. And deer eat everything.

I have photos of them munching irises, which they are supposed to hate.

Practice in the foothills is a seven foot high fence, or two fences, spaced to prevent them leaping.

Of course, you also need a solid floor, because gophers will eat everything from underneath, a solid wall to keep rabbits out, and a mesh covering to keep birds and squirrels out.

In short, a greenhouse.

I successfully grew lots of roses, lilacs, wisteria trees, flowers, veggies and so on, in the suburbs but not in the country.

And in one test, 1/3 of deer tested have covid.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/covid-rampant-deer-research-shows-rcna10181