Removable Raised Garden Bed Fence

[Zana]

Found this online today....wondered what anybody else thought. Has anybody tried something similar?

http://www.gardeningworld.org/2013/1...bed-fence.html

[Worth1]

I have something like that in mind but it is more complicated and on the back burner right now.

In the last three days I have jumped from machinist to wood worker, electrician and plumber.

Cat perches, drains and lord knows what.

If they would have put up 4x4 posts it would have expanded their horizons as to what they could do.


Worth

[rwsacto]

I have a fence on my raised beds. Mine are simply three small rails about 12 inches high total. I used the exact same method of PVC pipe on the inside wall to hold the fence stakes. Mine keep the dogs out, nothing else.

I am not sure what critters are deterred by the fence in your link. Certainly not birds or squirrels, the banes of my tomato growin' existence!
Rick

[habitat_gardener]

At one of the community gardens, I've seen effective critter fences made from hardware cloth. Some are just hardware cloth formed into a 5-sided rectangular box (the open end sits on the ground). Others have a frame made of 1x1s or 1x2s, with hardware cloth or chicken wire stapled to it. Those are also 5-sided boxes, so they're easy to move.

[Labradors2]

That looks very interesting! I need something similar, but with some gates in it. Last year I used a mixture of chicken wire and green plastic fenching, all 2' high, and secured with bamboo stakes. It keeps the nosy dogs out, but I've almost broken my neck a few times when stepping over it!

Linda

[habitat_gardener]

Someone has been picking the leaves from my 2 kohlrabi plants at one community garden, and i don't know whether it's a human or a rodent. So I got all the wire cages, fencing pieces, etc., that I had on hand and surrounded the plants to make it a challenge to get to the plants. Next step is to redo it with the big piece of hardware cloth I brought from another garden.

[Worth1]

Its a rodent by default.
If its a rodent its a rodent.
If its a human its a rodent.

Worth

[bughunter99]

Aesthetically it is nice. But for pest control it is only going to keep out the bunnies and dogs.
Raccoons, Deer, Squirrels, Birds, cats, humans etc will all ignore it.

It would be pretty good for containing compost however.

Stacy

[Worth1]

I'd like to know what kind of dog it would keep out.
Even old Boo Boo as old and fat as he is would crawl over it.
I had a pit bull once that would jump flat footed from the ground to her seat in an tractor trailer rig.
Her name was Kitty and she looked like Tammy Faye Bakker in her younger years.

She was light tan/blonde with black nose lips and black skin and eye lashes around her eyes.

Worth

[habitat_gardener]

The kind of dog it would keep out = the people pleasers. As long as there was no obvious food (including recently applied yummy organic fertilizer mixed with red lava!), most dobermans I knew would stay out. Nothing would stop any of the labrador retrievers I've known, though.

[habitat_gardener]

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[claherron]

Last year my dobie Apollo went after a rabbit in my garden, prior to this I always turned off my rabbit "proof" electric fence. I warned him not to try he didn't listen. Needless to say he destroyed the rabbit "proof" fence, ran right through it. The wires wrapped around him each time it pulsed he screamed bloody murder. I froze for a moment then unplugged the fence. I never put the fence back up and 8 months later he won't get anywhere near the garden and this dog will chase a ball into the depths of hell. Back to the topic, rabbits in my parts would easily clear that fence.


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[Labradors2]

Poor Apollo! At least the rabbit fence did the trick to keep him out though!

I should add that my garden is raised. so that makes the fence 3' off the ground. It keeps the dogs from racing through the garden and they haven't really tried to get over the fence. When the tomatoes bear fruit, they simply lean over as far as they can, and help themselves to any tomatoes they can reach.

Here's a picture of it last spring. The fence is incomplete as I was still in the process of planting.

Linda