so on Monday I noticed one of my jujubes had been browsed by some deer and by the time I got to addressing the issue this weekend they have munched most of the foliage on all of them. luckily they didn’t touch the bark so no girdling risk, but the green leaves and stems are mostly eaten. I wrapped the lowest foot or so with window screen mesh and secured it with staples to protect against rabbits (as I happened to see a baby one in my flower bed as I was outside working). for deer protection I made cages out of 5 foot sections of 4 foot tall hardware cloth and secured them with t posts. I didn’t have enough to also get my goumi shrubs wrapped (in the background) but they were barely touched so hoping they can make it another week before I can get to wrapping them. I had one 5 foot section of hardware cloth that I placed temporarily around our dogwood that was also hit hard by deer, but it is too tight so I did not secure it to a t post yet. the last 5 foot section of the fence (it was a 25 foot roll) is pretty useless for now as it was rolled so tightly from storage. I decided on hardware cloth because I saw Michael Judd from Ecologia Design post that as the trees grow taller the smaller holes in the hardware cloth prevent deer from climbing on the fence and standing on their back legs to browse higher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUKhcXS9tjc
Initial Damage
Today’s damage
prep
wrapped
