We live in a tract of homes with "no fences allowed " so we cant have a vedg garden. Deer are ruining my perennial gardens and I am out of repellants .The deer are used to all repellants on the market now.
My daughter gave me two for Xmas. so I could grow vedgs on the big deck we have.
I wouldn't call them self watering, I need to water every day. Maybe it's because the Toms and eggplants are so big and roots are huge and suck up all the previous days water. I just don't know.
I thought I might grow potatoes next year. Has anyone tried them ?
The netting system I devised is a royal pain when it comes to harvesting anything. I have also found the heat and humidity or some reason , makes the salad tomatoes drop off the vines added to the harvesting from the woodchuck.
I can't bear not to win at this project and vowed next summer will be different, so have hunted the net for some sort of semi permanent barrier that goes to the deck floor so the woodchuck cant sneak under the net and eat the toms. He doesnt seem to like the eggplant.
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I found this solution on Garden Supply.
http://www.gardeners.com/buy/c...
At this time my two earth boxes crop would completely fill the cage but it is a better solution than anything I saw as far as size goes.
This is the earthbox area in late July.
