Midpack
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In keeping with our eating healthy & LBYM efforts, every year we plant a garden. And every year the indigenous wildlife (deer, squirrels, rabbits, chipmunks, birds, giraffes, etc.) gleefully eat every vegetable or fruit we grow before they even begin to ripen - we live in a heavily wooded area. Sometimes they eat not just the vegetables, but plant and all, almost right down to the ground for Pete's sake! The only things we can grow & harvest are herbs (need any basil?), they leave those alone. We have tried chicken wire and stuff like that, all to no avail. Before I resort to an expensive, unsightly chain link fence around our garden or arming myself (...joking...), I thought I'd ask here. I'll bet there are gardeners here who have learned how to co-exist with the local wildlife...