Yes! That’s it. I don’t know how well it will work when there is real food hanging on the vine, but it certainly works well for my roses. The deer are still here (routed a big one out of my front yard as we returned home at 10 pm last night). The big circle with the fountain in front is protected. Another, nearby, bed that also contains 2 rose bushes, is not. The unprotected bed gets chewed to death every year. The protected ones are fine.
I bought another kind of deer repellent that works with batteries at the same time I bought the Sweeney’s (which was called something else at the time). I’ve never opened the packages. It’s more complicated to install and requires that I know which way they are coming. You are supposed to install those units on deer paths. They have a scent that attracts the deer and a shocker that scares them away. I didn’t think that they’d work for the veggie garden becuse I was also trying to keep rabbits away.
My fence has worked wellbut the decorative gate and arch has been a real disappointment. This is the end of the 2nd season and the rust is dreadful. It looked like it was powdercoated black iron, and it has the cheapest finish that you can imagine. The finish is coming off in chunks and the rust is eating it away. When the deer broke into the garden when there was 2 feet of snow on the ground they actually sheared the hinge and the latch off one of the gates. My husband fixed it, but the other side will be going next. I was going to look for new gates that would fit, but I see that the whole structure is going.
Woodchucks are around, as I said before, but they have not bothered the veggie garden.