Originally Posted by Alice Woodhull

Electric fence for our garden. The trouble began a few weeks ago with rabbits eating the little plants. So it was out with the fencer and fence. We have 3 rounds, one a couple inches off the ground for baby rabbits, one a little higher, and one about a foot off the ground. So far, it has helped. We didn't have a beet to can last year as they ate the leaves off both ends of the row. Then when the beets started to form, they ate them. There wasn't enough left to even cook a mess. I did get to can 10 pints this year, plus have some to eat along on. Did you know that beet leaves make good "greens." I haven't tried them, but the judge at our local fair last week said they were good. I may have to try them next year. My husband has just gone out to the garden to weedeat under the fence, as the grass makes the wire ground out and not do its job.