Keeping rodents out of the vegetable patch

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HeidiGardens Spring Valley, NY(Zone 6b) Apr 29, 2007

Can anyone suggest a effective and simple way to make a fence that will keep out rabbits, woodchucks, groundhogs, etc?

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kmom246 Murfreesboro, TN(Zone 7a) Apr 29, 2007

For the non-climbers, I'm putting in welded 4" wire that is 5 ft tall and goes under ground about 12 inches. I would have put something with smaller holes too keep out the chipmonks, but I recently saw some climb right over a 6 ft tall chainlink fence, so I gave up on height keeping them out. My dogs and darling granddaughter seem to be the main distructive forces in the garden right now.

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sallyg Anne Arundel,, MD(Zone 7b) Apr 30, 2007

I seem to do OK with "rabbit fence" , maybe helped that there are some food sources for the groundhog outside of the garden (mine like to eat lamb's quarter, fleabane, black eyed susans..someone said they love buckwheat.) and I will be planting onion-family things and marigolds to try to deter by smell. also read that the critters need water so to keep some water outside the garden

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kmom246 Murfreesboro, TN(Zone 7a) May 01, 2007

Good idea about the water. Didn't think about that. Right now I have a 5 gal bucket of water in the garden area for the canines. I think I will relocate it about 100ft away :-)

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