I don’t have a garden. My father had a garden everywhere he lived throughout my whole life. Last one was across from my front yard, about 100’ from my front door. He couldn’t see it from his house. Long story, but from about 5 years old to about 55 years old, with a 7 year break when I lived several hours away, he managed to irritate or torture me with the gardens in more varied ways than I can count.
I could see that last one whenever I was home and he couldn’t so I always willingly did my duty as his progeny and dispatched everything that dared enter aside from humans, insects (that was his job), and some but not all deer. Wife was home more than I was so she would do the same to control groundhogs and squirrels. Electric fence mostly controlled the deer. A motion sensing camera that pings your phone and a .22LR with a night scope and can on the end can be quite effective against “animals in the act of depredation”. Rabbits and deer are pretty tasty so at least there was some payoff.
Told my family several times when he was done gardening my last act as a “farmer” was plow, disc, drag, plant grass, and mow that garden plot. I am no longer concerned about wascally wabbits. We have a groundhog that lives in the culvert at the end of our driveway with whom we live peacefully. Deer and turkeys frequent the now tiny field without penalty. We still hunt, but not out the window as there is no longer depredation of cultivated plants.
The grassy spot in the far side of the gravel road is the “garden”. I like it much better.
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As for insects (wasps, hornets etc) chlorinated brake clean on their nest while wearing white! They are not annoyed by white ( not a rascist thing but move slow) hose the nest down and they do not smell the pheromes and move on!
