How Do You Protect Garden Bedding Plants From Deer And Rabbits?
It is very frustrating to purchase bedding plants for your garden, spend hours planting them, and then go out the next morning to find a third or more of them eaten or bitten off. Similarly it is discouraging to lose emerging seedlings in the same way. The deer netting described below provides good protection for bedding plants and emerging plants from deer, rabbits, and other hungry creatures. However, it must be held in place and supported in some way to allow the tender, bedding plants to grow underneath it. One version of this netting is a fairly strong, black, plastic mesh with 3/4 inch openings. This reasonably priced product is available in 7 foot wide by 100 foot long rolls from some home improvement stores and garden centers. Also, the furring strips recommended below are fairly inexpensive. When the plants reach the height of the netting canopy it will have to be removed, but by this time the plants will be large enough to survive occasional nibbling. This article will discus
