When damage to trees is severe and there is a large deer population that isn t likely to go away anytime soon fencing is the most reliable deterrent.
Fence around tree deer.
There are many types of fencing designs and concepts.
If you are just starting your apple trees and are doing it on a small scale i recommend a circular deer fence.
Hang a deer deterrent scent around the fence.
Assemble a fence around the young apple tree as a deer deterrent perimeter.
So attractive to the deer too.
Use hand pruners to trim the branches on the upper portion of the tree.
That is where protecting trees from deer with tree shelters and cages comes in.
Such tender and beautiful buds on our apricot tree.
The main ingredient of course was 6 foot welded wire fencing which i attached with zip ties to a quartet of metal t posts to form a square of protective wire around each tree.
Erect a fence around your apple tree.
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How to install a deer fence.
Install a plastic or metal mesh trunk guard around the apple tree s bottom.
Instead of building a fence around your entire woodlot you put a small fence cage or plastic tube around each tree.
This ends up being approximately 5 feet tall.
Tree shelters work only on trees with leaves and not needles but cages work with either.
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Wrap the deer netting around the wooden stakes securing it to the stakes at the very top and.
Space the stakes 4 to 6 feet apart.
A fence tall enough to keep the deer out wasn t a possibility it would have to be at least 8 feet tall.
How to deer proof an apple tree 1.
Conventional 8 foot 2 5 m woven wire fences are proven barriers to deer marauders.
Here s what i did and lets hear your own recommendations too.
So i wound up constructing variations of the simple effective fence i built to protect the farm garden from marauding deer.
According to the university of california at davis an 8 foot high fence is the.
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Tie string around.
The only barrier to deer is to install a deer fence.
The fence must extend from a few inches off the ground and go to the top of a deer s head level.
Wrap the plastic or metal mesh around the.
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This type of fence is composed of two widths of 4 foot 1 2 m woven wire and 12 foot 3 5 m posts.
We couldn t afford a fence that big nor did we want one.
With the sides of the square measuring about 6 feet long just enough to enclose my trees with some room to spare on each side i needed about 25 feet of wire per tree so 250 feet total.