Good fences make good gardens. As these vegetable garden fence ideas show, a good fence keeps out deer, rabbits, and your goldendoodle and keeps your tomatoes, peppers, and zinnias safe. A good fence also defines the perimeter of your garden and adds to the overall aesthetic of your property. And who doesn’t love a garden gate? Find inspiration for fencing your vegetable garden with these ideas that range from practical to pretty.
Picket Fence
A classic white picket fence separates a patch of corn from a raised bed of tomatoes, peppers, herbs, and squash. This arrangement keeps a small kitchen garden in the backyard and the row crops farther out protected from rabbits. The pairing of white painted wood with shiny stainless steel is aesthetically pleasing, too.
Deer Fence
This 7-foot-tall fence with a metal mesh guard ringing the top isn’t pretty, but it will keep hungry deer out of a vegetable garden. Poles of treated wood support panels of wire mesh that encircle and protect raised beds full of vegetables. A foot-wide strip of mesh with ragged, sharp edges has been stapled to the top of the fence at an angle to discourage deer from leaping over.
Privacy Fence
An eight-foot wooden fence with horizontal boards keeps prying eyes as well as deer out of this backyard vegetable garden. The wood panels sit atop a stone base to keep rabbits from burrowing under it. Raised beds made of stone are planted with vegetables, herbs, and ornamentals.
Fenced Compound
A wood and wire fence encircles several raised wood garden beds filled with vegetables. The fence’s height keeps deer out and the small size of the mesh keeps rabbits away. There’s a gate to give humans access to this pest-proof area, gravel between the beds keeps weeds at a minimum, and a vintage garden chair so you can sit a spell among the tomatoes and squash.
Kitchen Garden Fence
A rustic picket fence frames a grouping of brick walkways, beds, and wooden raised beds in this kitchen garden. Potted, shaped boxwood shrubs add touches of symmetry to the controlled chaos of the mixed beds full of billowing flowers, herbs, and vegetables. Trellises painted purple-blue draw the eye upwards and add non-vegetative color.
Streetside Lattice Fence
A pretty white lattice fence separates this side-yard garden from the street. Its posts are capped with wooden balls to add an elegant finish. A series of raised beds planted with vegetables and ornamentals are divided by a brick walkway. Containers of plants placed on the edge of the driveway provide a bit of a barrier between the area for cars and the area for plants. They also take advantage of every bit of sun in this space. A mixed bed of plants at the end of the raised beds helps the plot fit into the surrounding landscape.
Classic Cottage Garden Fence
A classic white picket fence surrounds this garden planted with vegetables and ornamentals. An oversized stone planter filled with a classic thriller/filler/spiller combo of ornamentals is the garden’s focal point. Gravel paths separate beds intermingled with everything from corn to hostas.
Cheap Fencing
Looking for budget-friendly vegetable garden fence ideas to keep rabbits, squirrels, and deer away? Surround a raised bed with netting, sides and top. It’s easier and cheaper to install than more permanent fencing options. Just stick poles in the ground at the corners of the bed and secure the netting around and over them with zip ties. Use landscape staples to pin the bottom edge to the ground to prevent critters from going under it.
Fences for Every Purpose
This hard-working garden area has fences to protect the garden from deer and rabbits, and fences to keep the compost corralled and from being an eyesore to the neighbors. A wire and wood fence surrounds a grouping of raised beds planted with vegetables. A wood fence with horizontal boards camouflages a compost bin and keeps it in one tidy, decomposing pile. The compost is conveniently near the garden, both for adding garden waste and then accessing finished compost for amending soil.
Cute Country Fence
A rustic wooden fence surrounds a potting shed, patio, and grouping of raised beds. The simple fence is built with wood planks set horizontally against poles and sheets of wire stapled to the wood to keep small animals out. Shaped shrubs frame the gate and a container of plants in front of the shed makes a focal point for the garden. Vines climbing the fence and the window boxes on the shed make the garden feel like an outdoor home.
Steel Fence
Define your vegetable garden’s perimeter with a steel fence. This black one has a Victorian feel, with its tidy gate and spiky poles. The panels will keep dogs and rabbits out of your garden and add a decorative touch to your backyard. It’s shorter than the privacy fence at the rear of the property, adding visual depth.
Wood and Wire Panel Fence
Wood frames lined with hog wire and aligned at varying heights conquer a slight slope in this yard. They also keep rabbits and dogs out of raised beds planted with vegetables. The wood has been left unfinished so the fence blends in with the landscape.
Pretty Privacy Fence
A six-foot privacy fence made with horizontal planks of wood protects a grouping of raised bed vegetable gardens. The beds of tomatoes have simple frames on them that can be draped with netting to protect the ripening tomatoes from squirrels and birds. Netting is a cheap fencing option that protects vegetable gardens from wildlife.
Rustic Wood Fence
A rustic wood fence protects raised vegetable gardens in this backyard. The fence has been doubled in height along the forest line on the right to help deter deer. A collection of tools and a topiary flank the rustic gate.
Modern Vegetable Garden Fence
A simple cattle fence paired with a modern potting shed brings an atomic age aesthetic to this vegetable garden. The thin steel fence poles draped with silver hog wire disappear into the landscape, leaving the Japanese-inspired gate and ranch house-style potting shed to be the stars of the backyard show.