Garden Grow Tips - Plant, Flower, Vegetable, Seed, Herb and Gardening Help

Often, an issue with planting seed in pots or the ground is protecting them from Squirrels, Birds, Cats, Dogs, and other animals. The best technique that I have found is using wire mesh, or chicken wire. I cut the mesh into sheets, and lay it on top of the newly planted soil with seeds. To create stakes, I buy a roll of thick stainless steel wire and cut it into eight inch pieces, bending each piece into stakes. After seeds have sprouted, and leaves from new plants are 2-3 inches in height, I remove the wire mesh for use in the future again. The nice thing about wire mesh is that it would be very difficult for an animal to penetrate through it. The benefit of using a few stakes every square foot is that larger animals would have a difficult time moving the mesh due to the stakes securing the mesh.

Pots With Wire Mesh