2010 Lessons Learned

  • Cattails are much easier to cut down than bamboo.

  • Everything planted must be mulched some how; life is too short to hand weed 100's of feet of bed

  • Deer are smarter than they look.


  • Algae and iron bacteria will quickly clog many different kinds of irrigation devices.


  • Deer can jump very high and for very long distances as well as limbo amazingly low.

  • Having replacement electric fencing materials on hand is important
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  • Six months of deer-free crop fields can change overnight if they learn there is something there they really love to eat (see previous about having replacement fencing materials on hand).

  • Deer really love to eat mature sweet potato vines.

  • Putting up electric fencing in the pouring rain is not really that much fun.


  • 
Picking produce in the pouring rain is also really not that much fun.

  • Raccoons can do the limbo under electric fencing.

  • Solar powered electric deer fencing packs quite a wallop.

  • You should only ever say: the Deer Fencing is working SO FAR
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  • Supportive customers are priceless.

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