Ap Cook

ah I went with the sisal as I'm fairly averse to using plastics, especially outdoors, whenever it can be reasonably avoided (once a year I remove a literal truck load of trash from along my frontage, mostly plastic). sisal is supposed to be plenty strong and sunlight resistant, but whenever it breaks I'll just repair it. plus as I grow the hedge I can abandon the string without concern. haven't decided what kind of plants yet tho - still need to do my homework. I already have some wild berry bushes in the area of the fence that are pretty thorny, so that's a start.

that's the plan. I left an opening on the side where their trail continues up into the neighborhood, but the fence now cuts off where it enters the yard and crosses my beds. hopefully they just detour around the fence and on up their trail now that they're not walking straight through a salad bar.

first post here - thanks for this great idea! the deer have shut me down mid-summer each year so I hope this solution proves effective as I really don't want to deal with a solid fence.