Love the homemade gate! My BF is very big on using as many found or dirt cheap items as he can, too. Luckily we have a perimeter fence that keeps the deer out, but it's the tiny critters that are hounding us right now. Slugs ate my cucumber seedlings! We should have time to start some more at least. It really is continual trial, error and learning! But boy can the results be fun.
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So far only the larger critters have bothered me. It's possible that the damage the big ones have done is so devastating I just haven't noticed damage done by the little ones. Good luck this year! I love becoming acquainted with the wildlife, no matter how they present themselves to me.
Ingenuity is a huge part of the fun! I'm not convinced my neighbors like my ingenuity much though. I live where everyone keeps their grass shorn short, their trees cut down, their porches tidy, their fences white opaque plastic. I like to say I am rewilding my property, which is true. I let thistle go to seed for the gold finches, and poison ivy to climb the trees it chooses to climb. Both of them look beautiful to me, and are not really invasive - they seem to find their places and stay there. I can't say that for the garlic mustard though!