A physical defense kit for your young trees. Includes 24-inch UV-stabilized mesh tree tubes, heavy anchor bamboo stakes, and weather-resistant structural locks — protecting new plantings from deer browse and mechanical damage. Bundle pricing saves 20% versus buying the pieces separately.
24-inch UV-stabilized mesh tubes — mesh rather than solid, so air moves through and the seedling grows sturdy rather than leggy
Heavy bamboo anchor stakes — a tube that blows over protects nothing
Weather-resistant structural locks — hold the assembly together through a season of wind and rain
The honest answer depends on your deer, and you already know whether you have them.
Yes, if deer come through. On hardwood seedlings this is not really optional — a seedling browsed repeatedly at its growing tip never gets away, and one bad winter can end a whole planting.
Yes for arborvitae. Deer favour it. Thuja Green Giant is moderately resistant, not deer-proof, and Leyland Cypress is not reliably deer-proof either.
Also worth it near mowing lines. String trimmers kill more young trees than deer do in some yards, and a tube is a visible marker as much as a shield.
Probably skip it if you have no deer, no rabbits, and you mow carefully around marked plants.
Fit them at planting, not after the first browse. The first two winters are the dangerous ones, when other food is scarce.
Drive the stake properly. A leaning tube chafes the stem and does more harm than none at all.
Check them a few times a year. Look for the tube tilting, the lock loosening, or the tree outgrowing the top.
Take them off once the tree is clear of browse height and thick enough to stand alone. Left indefinitely they girdle and deform.
A physical defense kit for your young trees. Includes 24-inch UV-stabilized mesh tree tubes, heavy anchor bamboo stakes, and weather-resistant structural locks — protecting new plantings from deer browse and mechanical damage. Bundle pricing saves 20% versus buying the pieces separately.
24-inch UV-stabilized mesh tubes — mesh rather than solid, so air moves through and the seedling grows sturdy rather than leggy
Heavy bamboo anchor stakes — a tube that blows over protects nothing
Weather-resistant structural locks — hold the assembly together through a season of wind and rain
The honest answer depends on your deer, and you already know whether you have them.
Yes, if deer come through. On hardwood seedlings this is not really optional — a seedling browsed repeatedly at its growing tip never gets away, and one bad winter can end a whole planting.
Yes for arborvitae. Deer favour it. Thuja Green Giant is moderately resistant, not deer-proof, and Leyland Cypress is not reliably deer-proof either.
Also worth it near mowing lines. String trimmers kill more young trees than deer do in some yards, and a tube is a visible marker as much as a shield.
Probably skip it if you have no deer, no rabbits, and you mow carefully around marked plants.
Fit them at planting, not after the first browse. The first two winters are the dangerous ones, when other food is scarce.
Drive the stake properly. A leaning tube chafes the stem and does more harm than none at all.
Check them a few times a year. Look for the tube tilting, the lock loosening, or the tree outgrowing the top.
Take them off once the tree is clear of browse height and thick enough to stand alone. Left indefinitely they girdle and deform.
