connie vickery

You might want to rethink electric fencing.  We have a lot of yards around us that have it to keep dogs in the owners' yards, but they become accustomed to it or just over it after 6-9 months and then you have the same problem and have spent a lot of money.    

Oops, forgot to say in previous post that you don't have to have a coyote latrine to gather the coyote urine!  Get it at a hardware store.  Invisible fishing line might cause injury even though it seems pretty benign and if it breaks and is consumed it is likely to kill the animal.

We have had great results with spraying coyote urine around our beds.  We're in rural Maine and back up to our neighbor's 30 acres where deer live and breed.

This year I planted castor bean plants which also discouraged deer and other critters from eating taller plants.  Castor bean plants are beautiful and easy to grow.  Ours grew to about 8'h x 3'w and protected an area about 12'l x 15'w heavily planted with amaranth, sunflowers, zinnia, etc..  Perhaps placing a castor bean plant on either end of the bed would take care of the problem.

I am using straw to bank the sides of the wood and organic material before adding soil.  My question is that the straw is wet through.  Can I still use it or should I get some more?