[senior citizen]

Originally Posted by champion6

I have a 4'x8' raised bed garden in my back yard - privacy behind me. Raised bed is the way to go because the soil is terrible. I also have 24" chicken wire around it to keep the four-legged critters out.

Good idea with the chicken wire. When we had our "victory garden" on the ground......on a hillside, no less.......the assortment of "critters" like groundhogs , skunks, deer, rabbits, you name it, came to feast. An elderly neighbor had warned us that we would never be able to grow anything to completion. He was right. We were running a "veggie supermarket" for all the nocturnal critters, especially the deer families.