[Yosemitest]

An eight foot high fence will stop most of those "brats",
but those "brats" are good eatin' too.
If you're in the city, get good with a compound bow.
Otherwise, a rifle through a open window will work.

[tubebender]

LOL... I may have been born at night but not last night Yose. Those are small Black tail deer in my neighbors field and my 6’ chainlink fence keeps them at bay. I couldn’t get them all in the photo as there were 12 of them. I hope a few are still around when meat becomes scarce.

A little perspective on my gardening experience. I was born in the early 30s in western FResno county and tending my Mother’s door side garden at 5 or 6 pumping water from a well with a pitcher pump and at 7 was flood irrigating, hoeing and cultivating with a Wheel Hoe my Dad’s 1 acre garden. This was the same time period that Mother made me a cotton picking sack from a feed sack and I have a photo of me picking cotton alongside my older brothers and sisters. By 10 I was flood irrigating cotton and Alfalfa and at 12 was running a Farmall cultivating and at 16 was flagging for a aerial spraying outfit.

Wife and I have been married 53 years and have had a garden for 51 of those years and tended 2 large gardens for 20 years when we had a summer place on the mid Klamath River. I have worn out 2 Troy Bilt tillers and still have a little Troy soil mixer and had a Sears rear tine that I gave to our Pastor because it was awkward to use compared to the large Troys. I have had a Wheel Hoe for over 40 years that I restored a couple of years ago and rarely use because of the nature of my raised beds. I have extensive experience with drip irrigation in gardens and landscaping including 3 or 4,000 feet at our Church.

Most of the folks posting here have small gardens compared to you and I and even mine is not expansive and I covet my neighbors open field, deer, weeds and all. For all my years of gardening I am aware that there is always something new to learn and my wife reminds me that no one knows it all...