Uses for Chicken Wire

Use chicken wire around your house in new ways that make your life easier. Turn a roll of unused chicken wire that has been sitting in the corner of your garage into a working support system. Inexpensive chicken wire is a fast, nontoxic solution to many different problems you may have in your yard.

Cat Feeder

Use chicken wire to protect your catnip and cat grass plants from being nibbled to death. Cover the top of your pot by placing a circular-shaped piece of chicken wire about an inch above any new growth shoots coming up from the soil. Make a cylinder out of chicken wire and place the plant inside the cylinder. Bend any sharp wire edges over onto themselves using needle-nosed pliers to protect your cat's tender nose and paws. Connect the cover to the cylinder with zip ties to complete the cage around your plant. Trim off any excess plastic once the zip ties are in place.

This cage will allow your cat to free feed on catnip or cat grass without damaging new growth and potentially killing the plant.

Reinforced Post

Strengthen a post before it is put in the ground by wrapping it in chicken wire. Dig your post hole slightly larger than the post to allow extra room for the chicken wire. Use a staple gun to attach the chicken wire to the post in at least three places before wrapping it around tightly a few times. Staple three more times to attach the other end of the chicken wire to the opposite side of the post. Cut off any excess wire beyond your final staples and press the wire to form it close to the post. Lower the post into the hole and pour quick-dry concrete to fill the hole to the top. The chicken-wire wrapping will add support to the post and give the concrete more surface area to help hold the post in the ground.

Deer Repellent

Although deer are beautiful, they are sometimes a destructive pest. Keep deer from visiting your garden and eating your flowers by installing a nearly invisible chicken-wire fence. Roll strips of chicken wire out to surround the perimeter of your protected grow space. Lay the chicken wire down flat on the ground and use U-shaped pieces of wire to stake the fence down. Remove your fences from the ground when you mow and put them back in slightly different positions than before to allow for new grass growth. Deer will find it difficult to walk on the wire with their split hooves and will be forced to leave your plants and produce alone to thrive.

References

• Extraordinary Uses for Chicken Wire: Here are 7 Surprising Ways Chicken Wire Comes in Handy