The fencing around it is another problem you are apt to be seeing, had 5 deer in the yard at midnite other day...has to be 8' hi to thwart them as they love gardens. Letting your plants trail is a good way to avoid trellising, I use 36" long sticks of rebar with bamboo poles to stake plants- after all, I had a neighbor who thought she could plant bamboo on her 1' of easement and actually thought it would stay there, sigh. The rebar keeps the bamboo from rooting after I dry it. I would have loved to have had more than the 36" we kept for aisles- the one aisle that is 44" is much easier to deal with. In front of those beds is not grass- it is oats and crimson clover- the dogs and cats will chew the oats while they are gardening with me, the crimson clover tells me how poor the soil is there and helps feed the oats. Clover won't grow for more than 5 years in one spot before the nutrients change in the dirt and keep them from sprouting. It also only grows in poor soil...
I only wish the metal fabric would stop the roots. It won't happen, it will feed up thru the mesh and grow holes in the mesh. Sweetgums are horrible about it, but so are the pines. I have been cheating the moles- I throw coffee grounds out away from my garden- it draws the earthworms to that spot and the cats and dogs hunt them in the yard where the worms and moles come after the coffee grounds. Fire ants are a never ending battle, usually they come up after rains, but the hives underground can actually spread over 80 feet down and at least as wide under your feet. Kill one spot and new queens move right in.
