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How many trees are you planning? I have two orchards one with 15 trees and the other with 24. I have opted to fence each tree enstead of a fence around the orchard. You can use 4 to 5' tall 2x4 welded wire in 12' to 15' lenghts to make roughly a 5' diameter cage. This will keep the deer out since they cannot jump inside. It does make pruning and orther maintenance a little more work. But for a small orchard it is more cost affective. I close the cages with cable ties so it is real easy to open them to work on the trees. Good idea, lassig. We're going to be planting probably half a dozen fruit trees very soon and I like this approach - low maintenance and low fuss. I assume you stake the sections of fence down to keep them from tipping over and creating easier access to the tree? Yes I uyse 2 5' or 6' T-posts. I use two cable ties on the one T post that doesn't have the openning and 3 on the Tpost that has the two ends of fencing on it.
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