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You may be able to get away with your current netting and just adding another strategy to keep deer at bay from you garden.

Adding a "fear based" repellent will keep deer wary of crossing the barrier you are already using.

Deer Repellent Packs use genuine predator urine in granule form encased in a weather resistant, breathable pouch. These can simply hung from the fence you have. The deer avoid the area because of their keen sense of smell and instinctive fear of predators.
 
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rig an outward slant to the top of your fence.
 
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I can come up with two ideas for you. You could lay a 2 foot wide strip of chicken wire outside of your existing fence. lay it flat on the ground and stake it down. Deer don't like to step on the wire because it bothers their feet. It may keep them back away from the fence far enough to keep them from jumping it.
Remember, deer can jump high and deer can jump long, but deer can't jump high and long. Depending how tall your present fence is, you can construct a three foot fence about 4 feet from the original fence. If your original fence is, lets say 6 feet tall, the deer won't be able to jump the high fence if they need to leap over the lower fence as well. The thing to keep in mind is not to leave too much space between the fences so that the deer can jump one and have room to jump the other in a second leap.
Just some ideas that I have seen work before.
 
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Peanut butter packets hung about 12' apart will shorten the learning curve with an electric fence. Baiting is usually needed in high density areas. They will last several months here in central Missouri. Warning- if you are tender of heart regarding deer the reaction this solution will cause will distress you. It is not fatal nor permanent but effective.
 
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sdwolfden said:
I can come up with two ideas for you. You could lay a 2 foot wide strip of chicken wire outside of your existing fence. lay it flat on the ground and stake it down. Deer don't like to step on the wire because it bothers their feet. It may keep them back away from the fence far enough to keep them from jumping it.
Remember, deer can jump high and deer can jump long, but deer can't jump high and long. Depending how tall your present fence is, you can construct a three foot fence about 4 feet from the original fence. If your original fence is, lets say 6 feet tall, the deer won't be able to jump the high fence if they need to leap over the lower fence as well. The thing to keep in mind is not to leave too much space between the fences so that the deer can jump one and have room to jump the other in a second leap.
Just some ideas that I have seen work before.
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sounds like a winner to me!!!!!!!!! thx.... any special place to get chicken wire????
 
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Huffy said:
Peanut butter packets hung about 12' apart will shorten the learning curve with an electric fence. Baiting is usually needed in high density areas. They will last several months here in central Missouri. Warning- if you are tender of heart regarding deer the reaction this solution will cause will distress you. It is not fatal nor permanent but effective.
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i like this idea... lolllll. i love deer. but when they eat my food... i hate them
 
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Hey ... this summer I built a corral for my garden, since the elk and deer have now found it. I set 10' posts with sheep tight around the lower portion, then a couple of rails, and topped it with poly fencing for deer. It worked great, and I can take it down for the winter. Much cheaper and easier to top your fence with the poly, than having to stretch barbed wire at 8'. Here is what I used: Easy Gardener LG40027110P X-Treme Deer Barrier 8-by-100-Foot Fencing from Amazon. It is light, so doesn't need excessive support.
 
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buckcreek said:
Hey ... this summer I built a corral for my garden, since the elk and deer have now found it. I set 10' posts with sheep tight around the lower portion, then a couple of rails, and topped it with poly fencing for deer. It worked great, and I can take it down for the winter. Much cheaper and easier to top your fence with the poly, than having to stretch barbed wire at 8'. Here is what I used: Easy Gardener LG40027110P X-Treme Deer Barrier 8-by-100-Foot Fencing from Amazon. It is light, so doesn't need excessive support.
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hmmmm got a picture??????????? not sure which route to go...
 
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My wife's grandmother was having deer problems - her garden is small about 40 ft x 60 ft - anyway we used a blender to blend a bunch of jalapenos with water and let it sit overnight then strained the juice, put it into a spray bottle and sprayed down everything that the deer liked to nibble on. Well the deer came back only one time and never again and the jalapeno juice didn't have any lasting effects on the veggies she sprayed them on. Had another friend that used jalapeno juice on tomatoes to keep away the woodchucks and it also worked great.
 
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