Deer-Proof Cages (not fences) and Cost

[Audi_o_phile]

@ztom

Do you have a better source?

I have yet to purchase remesh as I’ve always gotten scrap rolls for free: cruise by residential construction sites right after they have poured a slab foundation or the driveway, check in the construction dumpster and you are likely to find a partial roll of whatever remesh they had remaining. Sometimes it isn’t much, sometimes it is 100 feet (or more) of the original 150. You are keeping it out of a landfill, so you are doing something useful in the process. Check out how I bend the wires in this post, and then read a little further for how I attach them to the ground.

@Audi_o_phile

Yesterday I was preparing more tubular cages made out of the steel reinforcing mesh (remesh) in order to protect some fig trees that I planted last year and thought that I might document one for y’all.

@Audi_o_phile

remesh cages for protecting fruit trees or as tomato cages (still a fruit)

[DragonflyLane]

Haviland 15 gallon squat pots, 13 x 56 Cedar Ridge tomato cages and mesh bag tree covers on Amazon.

Bags cinch around pot and end up maybe 2” above ground when let hanging loose.

I think this will keep deer off my tomato plants.

[fruitkismet]

This did not work for me.