Cheap, Fast, & Easy DIY Garden Deer Fence that WORKS 

Mike, glad to hear that it worked well for someone else. In the original video, I still can't believe how many people said it didn't work, because it is working perfectly for us even weeks later. Thanks for stopping by and commenting! Hope you and yours are doing great!

I used invisible fence and it worked. Have to spray weekly or sooner and if it rains. I also used sprinklers with sensors that would spray the deer when they tripped it. Worked for a while. All three with this fence should work well

Have you ever had trouble with deer getting their antlers tangled?

You're welcome and thank YOU for taking the time to comment. We really can't take credit for the idea, but I'm glad it helped protect your fruit trees! God bless!

Mark, the garden is looking amazing, and it is do entirely to your suggestion about the raised beds IN the Back to Eden garden (wood chips). We would have been waiting for them to decompose and not planted this year. Everything is taking off. We've harvested pounds of sugar snaps, radishes, beets, lettuce, etc, and the tomato plants are exploding - setting lots of tomatoes already. Again, thank you for all your help and advice. Oh, and the sunflowers are really coming along!

Hope it works as well for you as it has for us!

Hi, I’m currently trying to fence my garden. Can you explain the second post at the 45degree angle. Thanks

Nice suggestion thank you!

Thanks for adding this comment. Really do think it is a quick, easy, and effective solution to the problem.

I tried it last year and it didn’t work! Had it 1’ apart, they put their head through then jump in

Yes, in another section of our garden, the fishing line kept out the deer, but the rabbits got in and ate all of our young bean plants. We're experimenting with some cheap alternatives to keep rabbits out around the bottom.

I’ve trapped many ground hogs with my live trap and relocated them . But I could never trap one of those wascally wabbit. They are too smart . I couldn’t understand how the bait would disappear and no wabbit until one day I watched a wabbit hop in the trap over the trigger plate , eat the bait and hop back over the trigger and back out. Then I got one on video cause my wife didn’t think they were that smart but I showed her the video and she believed. So I gave up on the rabbits. The first fence I put up was chicken wire and I saw a rabbit squeeze right through one of the holes. I put up a rabbit proof fence then they dug underneath it . I guess I’ll just have to plant enough for all of us

Wonderful, another under the patronage of our dear St. Isidore! Thank you for all of the kind words and taking the time to comment. Blessings to your and your!

For the burrowing critters and bunnies you can run chicken wire around the base of the fence. For 6' poles, I used the 2' wire with the 2" holes as it was cheaper. Affixed it with aluminum wire on a roll to the t-posts or zip ties. I put a foot against the 't' posts, a foot on the ground and buried part of it in dirt. That way when the deer step on it they also sense something weird under hoof and back off. Its a 100' x 30' garden. You can always get the 1' wire for your application.

Use woodline trees as fence posts with ring screw anchors and fishing line.. You can fence in an acre sized lot with this concept and cost would be less than 10 rolls of fishing line and a bulk buy on screw hook anchors in the hundred count boxes..

Thanks for the comment - hope it works for you as well as it has for us if you give it a try.

We have an electric fence around our garden and it stands at 6'3"... the deer have just started jumping over it to eat our corn. Fucking things, grrrr.

Stinking deer. Rock salt in a shotgun works great! It won’t mortally wound it and the salt will go on stinging for a while. The deer in our area (and coyote and black bear) learn quickly from it!

It's not a matter of how high the deer can physically jump. The point is that they are hesitant to jump something that they cannot see.

We had a 12 foot fence they jumped. We took it to 18 feet and we saw them jump it like nothing.

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Did it work? Did u try adding a line 2 feet in front of the wire fence 2 ft off the ground? That makes the fence 3d and it confused them for me with no issues

Interesting - thanks for taking the time to share that. Our challenge this year was rabbits, which this fence does nothing to stop.

So happy to to hear this worked for you as well! Thanks for taking the time to share feedback and your results. Blessings to you and yours!

Is this still working for you for keeping the deer out? Would love to hear an update.

Have you had any trouble with animals getting tangled in it? I don't want to cause a new issue, but I really like this idea. Antlers tangling? Other animals?

I have the same thought. It should work, and we can use the trees as t-posts.

Ha! Yes, doubt this would do more than annoy them.

Definitely a better and relatively inexpensive long term solution. Also, easy to electrify if you're not opposed to such things.

Hello, checking to see how this ended up working for you? Thanks!

@@nycooper3802 it kept deer out, but not rabbits, gohpers, squirrels, who knows what else....

How did things work out for the bunnies? I believe this method will work for the deer but I also have the smaller thieves who want to take my plants instead of growing their own. Rabbits, possums, squirrels and raccoons. Thanks and Jesus bless.

Should be 8 feet

You would have to put something else around the t-posts for rabbits. Someone else commented about setting fabric erosion fence (cheaper than metal fence) inside the fishing line fence - a good idea - reason being that the deer would see the erosion fence and try to jump over it into the fishing line. Would be better for the deer to walk into the fishing line BEFORE they could even get to the erosion fence.

We're going to do the same thing. We have an older apple tree on our farm that we have been trying to "restore." Last year it finally produce a number of apples, and in one night the deer came and ate every one. So we're getting the 10 foot T posts to protect them.

Ours has been up 2 years.

It is like a shorter fence outside the main fence that has two strands.

Shoot

If that is what you have, try it. Big thing is just that the deer not be able to easily push it over.

While rebar is strong, the T posts have the strength advantage in this case as they are engineered for lateral strength where rebar is designed as a reinforcing material. At 6 foot, you are going to get a lot of flexing and bowing where an 8 foot T post because of its shape is not likely to bend much.

I think a possible problem with the cans will be that the deer can see them - and therefore that there is something there. The idea behind this fence is that it functions a bit like a force field. Not in the sense that they can't possibly break through it (they can), but that they walk into it, can't see it, and can't figure out how to go through, around, or over. We ran the lines about 10" apart. Hope this helps!

I saw another video where the guy had fishing line going around his garden, but with cans at one end on a bucket. That way, the deer push the line, the cans move, the deer get spooked by the noise and run away. Great idea in my opinion.

Phew - don't envy you having to put a fence around three acres! We had posts spaced to 50' in several places in the garden. One recommendation that I would make that I didn't say in the video is to tie off the line at each post. This way if the line breaks for some reason, you only lose the protection for 50', not for a much longer run.

Thanx so much for the response! Yea, I had thought about tying off at each post as well, but you just confirmed it for me. 50' isn't bad at all. I was originally thinking 20' myself. Pretty sure I can do it in a weekend. IIt sure beats digging holes, setting posts, etc. We have an apple orchard down from me who did that. What a job, and expense!

If they see it it would not work

As an update, this fence does work for the most part - meaning that it does keep deer from just daily going in and eating everything in the garden. Unfortunately, we had instances where they broke the fishing line and got into the garden and ate some sweet potato leaves. We simply replaced the line and it kept them out for the remainder of the growing season. Over time the line also deteriorates from the sun and becomes more brittle. So it's not a fool proof system - just a quick and cheap one if time or money are an issue. Next step up would be t-posts (fast and easy to install) with wire (that could also be electrified).

I just did same exact thing- we’ll see

Bummer. Guess your deer are hungrier than ours!

@@StIsidoresFarm Yeah, I notice our deer also got very hungry last year and ate stuff they "hate" like lilac bushes.

It is still working, but we hope to put in a permanent fence around the entire garden soon. The fishing line fence really only works for deer. You would have to put something else up for rabbits around the bottom - but you could do something smaller at the bottom for rabbits and the fishing line above for deer. As to the gate, we ended up just using a piece of fencing tied on one side to a T post - simple solutions.

Yes, I have been thinking about this a lot and have read everyone of the comments on this video. I am a site and paving contractor by trade. I have also read where deer have a problem with rationalizing 3 dimensional situations. A fence is two dimensional as it pretty much can be drawn on an x, y plane. I don't know if it was in your comment section or elsewhere that I read that someone had put up a 4 ft fence on a 45 degree angle towards the outside of the enclosed perimeter and that the deer would not jump over it because they could not negotiate the 3rd dimension. I have read where others have put a 2 ft 2in gapped chicken wire along the bottom but my concern is that the deer would jump this not even thinking about the fishing line. The though occurred to me that if I placed the 2' high fence 2-3 ft inside the fishing line perimeter using erosion control fabric style staking that this would effectively keep the deer from trying to jump and keep the smaller critters at bay since the deer would touch the fishing line before they got to the small critter barrier. This would create the 3 dimensional confusion for the deer and they would simply not attempt to go any further. Just a thought but it might work. By the way I live in Apex, NC but have a farm in Yanceyville, NC. Also I am a Knight of Columbus and attend church at St. Mary Magdalene in Apex. On the old side at 59 with 5 children and 5 grandchildren. I love to watch your videos and can see that God has truly enriched your whole life and that that light is showing to the community around you. God bless. Please keep sharing. It is inspirational in so many ways that it is too hard to count.

Paul, first, thank you for your kind words - wonderful to hear from a brother Knight. And congratulations on your new church - was there recently for Deacon John Hubisz's funeral. As to the fence, I think all of what you say is very right, and your idea for how to inexpensively keep out rabbits with erosion fence/fabric is a great one. Setting it back inside the fish line fence is great. I will say we had dear get through the fishing line one night - broke some lines - and ate some sweet potato leaves. But we replaced the next morning and keep them out the remainder of the growing season. It's not completely deer proof, but for a quick and relatively inexpensive (non-permanent) solution, it really is largely effective. Blessings to you and yours!

Back at you! Tell your son to save me some of those transplants! Need a list of them to pick the ones I would like. Would love to come and visit some day to pick up the transplants, meet the future farmer of America and see the greenhouse. I want to build one just like it. Although I have an excavator, a skid steer and a kubota tractor so I won't have to do what you did to dig your hole for your geothermal battery.

Oh and I forgot. Vivat Jesus!

We have used this fence in several locations and it has worked great. Lots of deer traffic - tracks on ground gong around the fence. We did have one night where it seems a deer broke some of the line. It was in a section with the greatest distance (48') between posts so lines were looser. Deer ate some sweet potato plants. Put in a post midway and repaired line. No more deer. Hope this helps.