Names fade away at The UnNamed Seed, and what remains is the direct experience of the garden and the unnamable source of life from which it springs. Here, the names and stories of old heirloom varieties are forgotten, but their genetics and memories are carried forward. We reintroduce genetic diversity into our fruit and vegetable lines then save seeds from the plants that thrive with minimal coddling, little (organic) fertilizer and no pest controls. Our new seeds explode with vigor and productivity because their genetic toolkit for responding to drought, blight, and pests has been restored.
Oh yea, my name is Travis and I live and garden in Laurens, South Carolina USDA Zone 7b
I guess I can try again, since last time I did not use the vertical lines. The deer around here were looking at the lines when they were shiny, and then push them with their nose! Now I have one that went to snack on my potted plants in the porch 😐😑😕
I know the fence is cheat but I did notice that you had the ultrasonic repellers on your fence posts isn't that maybe the real reason the the deer aren't around ,you kinda accidentally showed it
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I would like to have seen game camera used for what happened when deer visited. My small blueberry patch has a metal chicken wire fence around it and the deer try to knock it down. I keep adding posts to stop them. So, why wouldn't they do the same thing to this fishing line fence?
Last year deer ate ALL of my veggie plants, some within days of planting, from my small container garden. So I gave the “CHEAP Deer Fence” a try this season. Yay!!! So far so good and much better than last year-the plants in the container garden are living and blooming!!!!Thank you!🎉❤
There's lawn between your fence and your garden (3:24). How do you mow it? My solution? An electric fence with a fencer that outputs 5 joules. U-posts at the corners with insulators and white plastic temporary insulated posts in between. Top wire at 4 ft., bottom wire at 6 in. and one more in the middle. That stopped the deer problem cold. I dismantle the fence at the end of the growing season. A word of caution. A 5 joule fencer will deliver a nasty shock to anything that touches it. Turn it off before working in your garden.
look up how high a deer can jump and know this work when you have a dog along with it. without a dog, it will initially work for about a week or two before they eat ur stuffs. i have done this , along with motion sensor water sprinkler and a second barrier of fish line.
Pretty cool! I don't think that would work for Javelina though. So, I guess it's out for us Arizonans. Granted, maybe I could do a shorter fence and then do this for the upper part of the fence for the deer.
The Idea is to stop the deer from walking into your Garden. A spooked deer will run through the fishing line. How it works is, a deer won't walk into the lines. as soon as they feel the line they stop. they don't know whats there because they can't see it. People use Pie plates, heavy line. rope all to no avail. use a strong light line that is almost invisible. Watch it stop the deer dead in their tracks ANYWHERE.
Did you install your corner T posts with a bit of an angle to compensate with the lines pulling in? Thanks a lot Travis for this video - I will try this out very soon!
This explanation of Landrace Gardening is very refreshing. I loved the bit about hybrid vigor simply meaning they are less inbred. I'm realizing organic/regenerative farming is very resource intensive, to the point many of their farmers either have to import tons of inputs or leave huge portions of land as lawn just to harvest grass clippings for mulch and compost.
Absolutely right! The typical modern "market garden" is the model I started my small veggie operation on...I have been learning tho that plastic, machines, irrigation and other inputs have a heavy price in more ways than just money. Finding out how to "Earth Garden" like our indigenous ancestors makes the most sense to me for a well balanced approach towards our relationship with the land, the creatures, our food, our water, and other humans.
Based on this video, I ran out and bought 40 lb line and strung it up around some fruit trees. Now they've broken two of the center lines and, I guess, walked through. The bottom of the fruit trees are ravaged up to about 3.5 ft. I see you have a dog and other repellent (subsonic?) in this video. I'm guessing your constant activity as well as changing up the visuals is what's really doing the trick. Not this line. I've seen deer push their bodies through thick vines to cut through trails in the woods. Why would a little painless, and weaker fishing line slow them down? They can just lean into it or paw at it and do more than 30 lbs of pressure.
We have had major issues with deer in our garden. The best method to keep deer out is CHRISTMAS FAIRY LIGHTS SOLAR. Since we hung around the garden no deer have been near.
I did a landrace of corn this year, focusing on the high protein varieties (basically the blue, red, purple). The general trend: Protein 3% gmo/hybrids, 3-4% white heirloom, 9% yellow like Reids dent, 12% reds like bloody butcher/johnny red/jimmy red, 15% Blue Hopi or the dark purple/black. The most successful the first season were Bloody Butcher, Blue Hopi, and the purple/black from Mexico. Last year I grew Reids yellow dent alone and it was quite good but susceptible to smut (common). Hardly any smut on what I grew this year. This year's corn fought drought during germination (set crop back six weeks) and weeds.
Thanks for your very clear presentation. We've had complete success with using the chicken moat concept, placing two parallel four-foot fences six feet apart around the garden. Deer can jump very high (8' and more) and very far, but they can't jump both high and far on the same jump and thus don't dare jump the first fence as they have nowhere to land safely. After our yard having been a deer highway three years ago, we have literally not had a single hoofprint in the garden since we initiated this approach. We run the fencing down from the chicken coop to our 8,000 sq. ft. main garden and thus the chickens can circulate freely in the "moat" around the garden, free-ranging and picking off bugs that might otherwise get in the garden. It has similarly provided ideal protection for the chickens from predators. (It also keeps the chickens themselves out of the garden when they are free-ranging.) Of course, the start-up cost is much greater than the very creative and inexpensive approach you have shared with us. Thanks. I may well try out your approach with some of our smaller unfenced areas.
What type of wire fence did you use? Could cheaper chicken wire work? And did you add a top over the run? We have a lot of hawks in our area so I was thinking of doing this but adding maybe some criss crossing fishing line over top for protection or chicken wire.
