How to Build a Fence Around a Vegetable Garden

There are many things to consider when you are building a fence around your garden. The main reason for putting a fence around your garden is to keep out the animals. No one wants the animals eating their vegetables and messing up your garden. Here are the steps to build your fence.

How to Build a Fence Around a Vegetable Garden

Step 1. Choose the materials that you will need for your fence. If you want to use metal materials such as wood, you may have to keep it up, like changing the wood every so often. If you chose a chain link fence you will not have to keep it up as much. This depends on the type of wood that you use, some wood is more durable than others.

Step 2. Decide how high and deep you will need your fence to be. If you want to keep smaller animals out of your garden, it needs to be two feet high. If you want to keep deer out, you will need an eight to ten foot high fence. Consider buying chicken wire for the bottom of your fence in a L-shape about a foot deep in the ground and angling away from the garden to keep out burrowing animals.

Step 3. You should use caution with wooded fence posts, if you use wood for your fence. The chemicals could leach out of the wood and enter your soil. You could fill the post holes with cement and then put in the posts.

Step 4. Think about sun and the wind. If there isn't any shade trees around to shade your garden, you could choose a tall fence to shade your garden through most of the day.

Step 5. Measure the perimeter of your garden so that you will know how much material to use. Remember to make a gate so that you can enter the garden.

Step 6. Before you begin digging, measure where you are going to put your fence posts. After you have placed the posts in the post holes, finish the rest of your fence making sure you fasten it securely.