From: songbird@anthive.com   
      
   fos@sdf.org wrote:   
   ...   
   > i need to fortify my woodchuck defense before growing greens,   
   > cauliflower, broccoli, etc, again. last year i got the seeds in   
   > very early and had beautiful looking plants growing. previously   
   > i had started them too late and they bolted from the heat. last   
   > year, the woodchuck got through the fence around the raised beds   
   > and had itself quite the feast leaving me with mostly plant   
   > stumps.   
   >   
   > this spring i'm going to rototill a trench right next to the   
   > fence all the way around a foot deep and as wide as the tiller   
   > tines, about 2 feet, and bury galvanized expanded metal   
   > vertically and horizontally along the fence in the trench.   
   > which reminds me. i need to source the expanded metal and get   
   > my oxy-acetylene tanks filled. welding for gardening? would that   
   > make it heavy metal gardening? :P   
      
     they can climb so you need some kind of fence they won't   
   like trying to get over.  raccoons are the same and why we   
   don't even bother trying to grow sweet corn here.  they end   
   up getting it before we do.   
      
     chicken wire may work for a short time, but it isn't very   
   good longer term and fails within a few years.   
      
      
     songbird   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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