While the garden looks good. (Lots of photos.) Update, more pics!!!

[baymule]

Why do you not have chickens? No Chickens?? You don't have to have a rooster......hens are fairly quiet......fresh eggs......

 

[Carol Dee]

@baymule the garden is out at the lot 3 miles from home. It would have to be Fort Know to keep away all the raccoon, opossum, snakes and coyote around. No electricity for motion or security light. Plus I would HAVE to drive out at least 2X a day to tend them. So....no chickens. Our yard here is too small Plus the Bird DOG would harass them to death.

 

[Smart Red]

@Carol Dee, ditto to what the others have said. You have a great looking garden, good planning, and attractive growing space. My meager efforts in the veggie garden -- everything is done by one gardener -- wanes beside your place.

 

[Carol Dee]

@Carol Dee, ditto to what the others have said. You have a great looking garden, good planning, and attractive growing space. My meager efforts in the veggie garden -- everything is done by one gardener -- wanes beside your place.

Thanks smartred mine would not look like it does or be as big with out help.

 

[Jared77]

A Duetcher Wachtelhund.....nice. It looked like it was a spaniel but don't know enough spaniels to ID it. It's a beautiful dog.

 

[Carol Dee]

A Duetcher Wachtelhund.....nice. It looked like it was a spaniel but don't know enough spaniels to ID it. It's a beautiful dog.

@Jared77 a common name for the breed is Water Spaniel. He uses him to hunt game birds, ducks hunt and blood trail. Well mostly he just sheds all over the house, barks at every little noise and chases cats, squirrels, rabbits, etc... Did I mention he is spoiled?

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

so green. I'm so jealous of green nowadays...

 

[JimWWhite]

Carol, this looks really, really nice. I have to run my mower through the garden weekly and weed-eat it afterwards or I'd never be able to get in. I've been using my Red Dragon flamethrower around the outside of my boxes to keep down the weeds and grass and it works pretty well. I don't want to use any herbicides but I may be forced to use it late this fall to kill off the weeds but leave the grass. We get some nasty bindweed and others that choke everything so I'm going to have to do something. I like the grass but the weeds gotta go.

 

[baymule]

Carol, I live in town, but built a Fort Knox coop and run after reading all the DOG/SNAKE/RACCOON/HAWK KILLED ALL MY CHICKENS!!! stories on BYC. I studied everyone else's failures before building my coop. I put 4x4" posts in the ground, skirted all the way around with 2' of 1"x2" welded wire and used plywood and hardware cloth on the coop. I bowed over 16' cow panels covered with hardware cloth for the run and it is skirted with wire too.

 

[JimWWhite]

BayMule, Nice!!! I wish I'd used the 1/4-inch welded wire when I built my run. I'm thinking it would keep the black snakes and mice out. But it was just too expensive and I couldn't find anything other than 3-foot wide rolls so I went with the 2"x4" welded wire instead.