Introduction
I used to live near Fairbanks, Alaska in a town called North Pole and loved to garden. The one problem, or one of the problems, is keeping the moose out of your garden. Having moose in your garden may seem like a trivial problem, for what could they do, trample your garden. Wrong!
My first and second year of gardening there, I lost almost my entire garden in one quick minute from a moose.
The first year my wife sent me down to the garden to get some cauliflower for dinner. As I walked into the garden all my cauliflower was gone, along with the cabbages and lettuce. But the tomatoes and potatoes were fine. I suspected moose.
I did some investigating and found people had success with putting up chain link fences around their gardens to keep the moose out.
The Fence
The next summer, the wife and I erected a four and half-foot high chain link fence. We thought that would stop the moose and save our garden. Wrong!
This tie the wife sent me out to get cabbage. Just like the year before, the only thing left was tomatoes and potatoes. I could not believe that a moose could jump over my four and half-foot fence and eat my veggies.
The next week I saw how they did it. The mother moose came to the fence with her babies, and calmly stepped over the four and a half-foot fence. Lucky for me, she had already eaten all the vegetables she liked and there was nothing more for her to eat.
The Dog Sensor
The next year I did not want to erect a ten-foot fence, so I kept the four and a half-foot fence up, but also bought something else. It was an electronic sensor that senses motion and when motion is detected, it sets off a simulated dog barking.
This worked great, I managed to harvest all my vegetables that year. I even managed to grow a thirty-five pound cabbage. Small by Alaskan standards when they can easily be grown to over fifty pounds.
The Greenhouse
My last attempt at keeping moose out of my garden was to construct a greenhouse. This worked great, too. I mainly grew tomatoes and herbs inside my greenhouse, which the moose left alone since they could not open the door.
Conclusion
If you live in an area that has moose and you have a garden, you might want to look at a motion sensor to keep the moose out of your garden or erect a greenhouse.
