Just got through digging 25 post holes for the fence around the garden and ran out of gas 4 holes short. Do i need to bury 6 inches of the fence underground or could i just drive rebar in the ground and wire the fence to it? What say you one and all.

Carol, I received the email. Thanks.

Telow,

None of my fence is buried although at one time it was (with a previous fence).

The problem with a buried fence is that bermuda grass and Johnson grass can become entangled with it and it is impossible to remove them.

Since I avoid the use of all chemical herbicides as much as possible and prefer to not use them at all, having grass entangled in the buried portion of a fence is a nuisance.

If I had animals that were going under the fence, I'd have to come up with a solution, but my cats take care of anything small and one of our dogs takes care of varmints up to the size of raccoons. Anything larger than a raccoon is likely to go over the fence and not under it, at least here at our house.

Is there a specific animal you want to exclude by burying the fence?

Dawn

Telow,

What kind of fence are you installing?

I dont like to get bermuda in a fence either. My garden now is not fenced but may have to fence it next spring because of the cover crop I planted.

My last garden was fenced with small chicken wire in the bottom, rocks, rebar and PVC on the ground. Above the chicken wire I had 6 srtans of electric fence. I ran one hot, then a ground about 3 or 4" above that. I repeted that pattern till I got the fence about 4 or 5 ft. high. I then took binder twine and strung it about 10 or 12 inches apart until about 7 ft hight. My thinking was the deer would think the binder twine was HOT also. I had no problem with deer but I did have problems with rats. I think they lived in my garden. It was planted so thick I could not see them, but I did catch a few in rat traps.

I used T post and PVC for post.

I still have two fence chargers that may get used next spring.

I hope you can keep the critters out of your garden. My most destructive critters are deer and coons.

Larry

I thought the cats were being awfully loud the other night and it sounded like they were knocking things around. I looked out to find a possum on my front porch where we feed the cats.

I have access to an 8" auger and thats what i used. It's the gas motor, one man type. I'm using warped, but not to crooked, landscape timbers because they will last my lifetime and they only cost 1.97 apiece. I'll fence it with chicken wire. I'm doing itfor several reason, one being, to keep out the deer, which we have in abundance around here. Another reason is i'm going to try and grow everything from pole beans, some cukes and maybe some morning glories for my wife. Thats it in a nutshell.

soonergrandmom, I like the possum story, my aunt, uncle and step dad have the same problem.

Telow, sounds like you have everything in control, but if your place is like mine you wont have to TRY to grow morningglorys, they will find you and make their happy home in your garden unless you use a lot of mulch.

Larry