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Oh great thanks. I'm on Vancouver island, in Campbell River

In these parts we would call your front yard level. So You don't need terraces. If you keep the garden small a five foot fence will keep the deer out. And it would be better to have the fence on the high side of that wall. To a deer if the fence is below the wall they'll see a 5 foot fence as a 3 foot fence.

If you plan to grow in the ground I would consider running the rows so that they don't run down hill. But if you're putting in raised beds I'd be leery of beds that create a dam to any heavy rains.

A fifty foot roll of fence will make an 11x14 foot garden and I could guarantee the deer won't jump the fence. No one in the fencing industry has ever gardened; or so it seems. If they had they'd make a fence that has small openings on the bottom to keep out rabbits and such. So on my 11x14 foot garden I have a double layer of fencing.

You should check for local ordinances that ban front yard gardens.

Around here anything less than 6' won't deter a deer at all. But, you should should check with the city/town about ordinaces that might restrict the heighth; and there might also be area/subdivision rules about what new you can put up.... if at all.

IMHO: I think a layered terraced look might be nicer for you front yard.

Eight ft deer fencing required here, and black plastic deer netting is readily available, reinforced by hog fencing at the bottom.

I have a 12 foot high fence around my 34 X 65' garden and a 5 foot high fence around the 11 X 14' garden. My point above is that apparently they won't jump into an area they're uncomfortable with. I guess they're afraid that they can jump farther than the eleven foot span of the garden!! And that they'll smash into the far fence?? The big garden has a 5 foot fence and 3 strands of wire above that.

They don't jump into my neighbors garden with a 6 or 7 foot plastic fence because there's also a picket fence. What they see looking thru the pickets are the raised beds and they're afraid they'll bust a leg jumping in.

I've also had experience with a 75X75' garden with a 9 foot fence. They regularly used that garden as a bedding area because they felt safe inside. While there they ate most everything growing there.

ok thanks everyone. I've got a clear plan actually now. I'll draw it out and show you the plan in case you're interested

Here's our deer fence. It's chicken wire on top and buried hardware cloth on the bottom to discourage groundhogs. Metal posts. We researched what would be most cost effective. Hubs built a gate out of scrap lumber.

Not sure if you need to terrace it . . . cedar beds are expensive. Perhaps cement blocks? Slight terracing with rocks? We did ours with pressure treated lumber and then lined with plastic to prevent leaching into soil. Not the best but not the worst. Most modern treated lumber doesn't leach that much, and plants other than leafy greens don't pick it up that much either. I researched it. Still, we went with the plastic lining because we had it, inherited from the previous home owners. It's a horrible thing for a garden bed but for lining treated lumber boards is worked good and it was free. But they make all kinds of inexpensive landscape blocks you could use for mild terracing.

This is in our front yard. The key is to keep the garden looking good. Or put some shrubs in front of it. Ours has a big norway spruce in front of it. Plus it is small. It's a little jungle like this year but we are slowly making it look more attractive. The white hoops are for the clear plastic cover we put on to extend the season. That was unsightly but only lasted a couple of weeks. We told the neighbors it was only temporary. Next year we will paint those hoops green. Also plan for a set of flowers around the garden to attract pollinators and repel pests. Also a visual aide for the appearance . . . Herbs are fairly floriferous and deer resistant. Took this photo when hubs was putting on cover, the ladder is not part of the plan . . .

Awesome, we are going to do something similar but the space is actually quite bit. So lawn is going to be permanently removed and it's going to have a cedar L shaped box on one side (with a high bamboo or trellis style fence on the back of the boxes so it blocks the view somewhat of the neighbours) then rocks in the middle with a seating area and a fence similar to yours (but we have sourced a different square type of wire fencing) for the other two sides with a gate. And all around that , wood chips so theres no lawn whatsoever on the side of the path to the front door. So basically making a garden area in the front yard that also incorporates a small seating area as I think if you sit in your garden, you notice that you should pick things, weed things etc. Plus we get sun until later in the day at the front of the house so itll be nice to be able to enjoy it without being on the street for everyone to view. Then we are going to replace the path to the front door with pavers and surround those with the same rocks as in the seating area, and use those same rocks in the garden bed along the house so theres some continuity.

The only sun I have is in my front yard too. Unfortunately, the biggest space is where the septic mound is. I'm not ready to go all raised beds in that area. This small area is a squared off "U" shape of raised beds to provide access to all the spots. There used to be a big dying blue spruce in that spot, so this is the first year we were able to utilize the sunlight in that area to grow vegetables. The tree was just dropping goop on the cars parked nearby. If you want privacy, you can grow all kinds of stuff up the fence sides too. I WAY overplanted this year's garden with tomatoes, won't be able to do that next year. I want to grow more than just tomatoes . . .

We were lucky that we had driveway on two sides, so that limits critter access through digging. I don't really like the plastic shed, but we're trying to be minimalists so not going to replace it right now. I would like to use the space to grow things but we need the space to store our snow blower . . .

Our veggie garden is on a slope. We did “no till” and just mounded compost w/ topsoil in 30-36” rows. Also have some 4x4’ raised beds that we diy’d using 4x12” douglas fir.

Also wanted to add that we did not pull up the sod (a miserable project!). We covered the garden area with tarps for a few weeks in the sun (which kills the sod, weeds, and weed seeds), after which you can just make your garden rows right on top.