New Garden Fence - pics

[karanleaf]

Nice Job Your Dh is a keeper Ya just gota love a man that can build and will put up with us gardening chicken loving women

Your daughter is adorable and I bet she is a great helper.

Can't wait to seephotos of it finished and your veggies growing :watering

:happy_flower Karan

 

[m.rogers]

That lookes realy nice and please keep the pics coming as the season goes on.

mike

 

[GrowinVeggiesInSC]

Beautiful! That's very similar to what my design started out as for my garden, but my dogs can jump that height, so ours is taller.
I especially LOVE the rock border. So pretty.

 

[DDRanch]

very nice.
Anne

 

[Big Red Hen]

 

[Purple Strawberry]

I LOVE it. The fence is simple and gets the job done and also looks great. What more could you ask for?

 

[tryingtohaveitall]

Great looking garden and fence!

 

[davaroo]

Nice! My back aches just looking at that turned soil and those shovels....

 

[CityChook]

Thanks everyone for the nice compliments. I have been passing them along to the DH - Gotta keep him buttered up for whatever project I have in store for him next.... hmmmmmm..... the choices, the choices...

Yes, Davearoo - That 100 year old grass didn't want to come up without a fight. But even more challenging are the zillions of tree roots from the sugar maple that is close by. Nice and shallow and large enough to completely RUIN a rototiller. Soooooo, it's hand turning for me. Me. Let me repeat that - me... I got to skip my gym workout those few days...

Carrots, bush beans and radish seeds are already up. Hard to believe I just planted them a week ago. I have tomatoes that are already about 40-50 days old, so I'm already getting some fruit starting. Man, I love this.

 

[davaroo]

But even more challenging are the zillions of tree roots from the sugar maple that is close by. Nice and shallow and large enough to completely RUIN a rototiller. Soooooo, it's hand turning for me. Me. Let me repeat that - me... I got to skip my gym workout those few days...

Carrots, bush beans and radish seeds are already up. Hard to believe I just planted them a week ago. I have tomatoes that are already about 40-50 days old, so I'm already getting some fruit starting. Man, I love this.

Been there myself. The current section I'm working on has another gazillion roots and tubers to be dug out. Remember, it was badly overgrown sub-forest just last winter. No point in a rototiller there, as it is just a web of anchored-in roots and tubers. I've finally just settled for getting get out the heart roots and leaving the runners.

We also have a vine here in South Carolina that is like some alien creature. It grows everywhere, and is quite thick and succulent. Once it gets tangled into something, it is the dickens to get out. Well, it has a giant root tuber that looks like about 3 or 4 peeled potatoes, glued together.

Rooting those babies out is no small undertaking. I had to buy the biggest, baddest mattock axe available for that sort of stuff. It's an 8 pound beast and swinging it makes me feel like - -

A. Conan the Barbarian (for the first 15 minutes)
B. Weezing old prize fighter (after the first 15 minutes)

By the time I make any sort of headway against this web of roots and gnarled growth, I'm so tuckered that I can't bear the thought of anymore digging... so I just plunk down a tire and fill it with dirt!