Torvy
Super Member
Nice. 8 ft fence is tough to build and expensive. I've heard that people will sometimes have success with a 5 or 6 foot fence with another fence a few feet out from that one. Spacing makes it tough for them to jump. Not sure if accurate.If you have acid soil, they should do well in your location. I don’t have experience with blueberries, but I grow raspberries and orchard trees and have many deer who create havoc. I’ve tried: dogs, motion activated sprinklers, motion activated lights, electric fence, baited electric fence, and double electric fence. Nothing worked except for the 8’ fence I built. But I have mule deer, maybe your whitetail deer will react differently.
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We planted some blackberries (they grow wild here, too). Raspberries don't like the heat so much. Neighbor in Wisconsin had them...so we did too!
We got a couple of pecans to plant. We got 1 Asian Pear, need another next year for pollination. Peaches, apricots, persimmons, grapes and perhaps more on the agenda. We figure if we get a few every year, we are happy. If we get more, we can gift, freeze and/or can the excess.
Mediterranean herbs grow well here as perennials. They like the heat, but tolerate our version of cold.