A friend lived in the outer banks of NC and his wife was from the mountains. She wanted a garden, but the sandy soil wouldn’t produce much so he bought 5 dump trucks worth of topsoil. The first year the deer got almost everything.
Second year he enclosed the garden with a six-foot high chain link fence, but the deer jumped over it as if it wasn’t there.
Third year he doubled the height to twelve feet and would tell everyone about his $100 salads she served for dinner.
“... Second year he enclosed the garden with a six-foot high chain link fence, but the deer jumped over it as if it wasn’t there...”
Typically we here in Michigan drop quite a bit of coin & sweat to put in good food plots through the spring & summer, just for the joy (& meat) of setting the antlered perpetrators in their place come hunting season. Years back some people would go “overboard” with enough baiting (50# bags of secondhand carrots, apples & sugar beets) to feed a small nation in Africa. But they’ve changed the hunting laws to keep the balance in the deers favor - sometimes too much thus making wildlife disease an issue.
This year being “different” with processing places having accidents and my planning to get more fit in life, I can live with a few more veggies. But come November 15th (firearm opener), all bets are off!