>The one thing that has worked is fencing, the entire vegetable
>garden is fenced off. which is probably what I'll wind up doing
How about a simple electrified fence ? I fenced off my yard with wire
using the wire from a chain link fence, I have no idea what gauge it is but
it is the wire that you would feed through a chain link fence at the
top/bottom for tension. It is galvanized, cheap and it works. The
electrifier is a Sears unit, 10+ years ago, $70, I have no idea what it
would cost now. It works great, just pound in a few sticks around the
trees, place the wire 3 or 4 feet off the ground and ZAP them out
there. You may have to play with the height and may even have to put in 2
wires (ground/hot) a few inches apart to make sure you get good contact.
But one wire works for cows and horses so I assume it will work for
deers also. I had to put in 2 wires in one place because the animal was
standing on heavily mulched area and could not get a good ground.
The advantage is that you don't have to stay there with the paintball
gun 24hours a day waiting for the deer.
Another idea, is a sprinkler with a motion detector. I have seen these
in various home gardening catalogs and here are a few links.
http://tomsgarden.com/s/shop/item.asp_Q_id_E_85471
http://www.bugspray.com/catalog/products/page1073.html
And since this is a shop list, of course you will want to build your own
motion detector sprinkler :)
http://www.perigee.net/~jrjohns/web13.html
I have no idea how well the sprinklers work, I use electric because its
there already.
mike
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