The garden at home has gone electric

My family moved to Tunbridge a year ago and one of the exciting things that Carolyn and I were looking forward to was having a big garden.   This year is the first year in the new house that we could do the full monty.  We moved in too late in the season last year to really have a proper garden. (although we planted a whole bunch of perennials which I’m happy to report are doing really, really well!)  This year we planted from seed as well as starts:   tomatoes, lots of different herbs, peas, pumpkins, lots and lots of peppers,  corn, squash, lettuces, spinach, cucumbers,  sunflowers and hops – (that is what that big 4x 4 post is for –  the hops vines). The garden has more square footage than the house!   THIS MORNING however, I get a call from the wife while I’m at the bakery that Punxsutawney Phil’s cousin or friend has muncha muncha muncha’d a lot of our tender pea vines.   Well, that will not stand.   I cut out of work early and make a bee line to Welch’s True Value Hardware in Royalton Vt where Bob was incredibly helpful and patient in getting me all the right gear to set up an electric fence for the garden.  I should add here that I suffer from some sort of temporary malady in that every time I walk into a hardware store my brain shuts down and I babble like a two year old.  I can’t remember the proper name of anything hardware-ish  and it takes a fairbit of time to convey to the sales person my goal for being there that day.   What can I say,  I’m not Tim Taylor.  So, moving on,  I get all the gear into the Beetle including the  8 foot copper grounding rod, the 4 cedar posts and the wire and energizer and stuff and head on home to Larkin Road.   Of course it is raining out today but I put on my waterproofs and I get the whole thing set up.  So now I have a fully armed and operational electrified fence around the garden.   Come and try and take a bite now of the pea vines Mr. Woodchuck!  The garden is closed!     Now I have to think about the deer………..