When I planted the squash in the side garden that we created this year, they looked so small and vulnerable inside that big space fenced only by some chicken wire.  I wasn’t sure they would make it.  The chicken wire was just about low enough for any hungry bunny to hop over, and certainly wouldn’t deter the deer if they wanted to just step over it and invite their friends for dinner.   We did put some stakes around it with some webbing tape sprayed with deer repellent and we’ve been lucky so far.

In fact, the squash have grown, and grown, and grown some more.  At this point — they are escaping the fence and running away, and there is nothing I can do about it – but wait for harvest, put on a my safari expedition attire, grab a machete and fight my way in to the squash patch and hope for a bounty of acorn, butternut and spaghetti squash — and some pumpkins and gourds.

I guess what is growing outside the fence is fair game for the rabbits or the deer.