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| sugarsfarm |
Posted - Mar 10 2006 : 7:44:59 PM
This year i am planning on having a larger garden than I previously have had, and i am wondering if i should put up a fence to keep pesky animals out of there. Does anyone have a unique fence around their garden or a good idea for one, or even one that has worked well against animals? Id like to recycle something old, i had an idea to use old bed metal headboards and footboards, but im not sure where i will find that many!
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi |
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| MichelleTN |
Posted - Mar 18 2006 : 8:00:45 PM
Oh, Fences, I love fences around gardens, in one of the latest Better Homes and Gardens Mags they had this rustic fence made out of tree trunk posts and limbs for the planks, very cute and the arbor was made out of tree limbs also. I want that around my garden but my voice of reason (DH) thinks its impractical for the spring plowing of the garden. So, I am going to try to figure out a way to make the fence in panels that can be moved.
Would love to here what fencing you decide on!
Michelle |
| cowgirlinthesand |
Posted - Mar 15 2006 : 09:45:44 AM
We have wild hogs (and a tame one ) to keep out so we use electric fence around our veggie garden. I have plastic poles that have a stake on the bottom and clips for the wire. I run 4 strands around it. Its nice because at the end of the season I can take it down and the size, location and shape is easily changed. From a distance its also pretty much invisable so thebeauty of the garden shows through. |
| grammazena |
Posted - Mar 12 2006 : 10:29:58 PM
Laura, maybe your peonies will return. Our yard used to have peony bushes lining the front and back walkways. Dad hated to mow around anything. So, as soon as they quit blooming, he would mow them right down. They would reappear every year. Magic! |
| CountryGirl85 |
Posted - Mar 12 2006 : 9:01:43 PM
I would love to have some fencing, also! I live in a subdivision and used to have a corn field behind my house which has been recently replaced with another subdivision. Boy do I miss that field! I would like to have a small picket fence around the garden and maybe along the back lot line, to add cuteness and also establish some sort of border since our new neighbors cut down our peonies last year by accident! Did I say I missed the corn field? We can't afford a large fence around the whole yard now, so just something small that I can *attempt* to put up myself. I'm also not a big fan of plastic stuff, especially the stuff that's supposed to look like wood or stone. I'd much rather have the real thing! Don't really have any animals to keep out, at least not wild ones. Just neighborhood cats and dogs, oh and neighbors. Did I mention that they cut down our flowers? And they took down the fence posts from the old wire fence - the last reminder that this used to be farmland and country and I think I'll stop my rambling now! 
Much love,
Laura |
| sugarsfarm |
Posted - Mar 12 2006 : 8:29:28 PM
OOOO!! im very interested Frannie!! Where would I go to get free paletes? Maybe i can take them apart and use the wood to make some kind of fence...haha i dont know...
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Mar 12 2006 : 7:48:42 PM
OH MY GOSH! friend Twigs e-mailed me pictures of wooden garden fences, trellis', and window boxes tonight .. the neatest ones i have ever seen! i don't know if they are in a book or magazine .. i e-mailed her right back asking her .. when i find out .. i'll let you all know! xo
True Friends, Frannie |
| TejasFarmgirl |
Posted - Mar 12 2006 : 7:23:30 PM
Sherry - Your place sounds wonderful! Can you share photos? I would love to see your fences and especially your greenhouse - I have been toying with the idea of doing a greenhouse out of old windows myself!
For our garden fencing, I am using an old privacy fence cut in half and putting chicken wire on the inside - the fencing was on the property went we bought it so we got lucky.
Leah - cute idea with the metal beds. I have also seen metal headboards used to grow vining veggies and fruits. Good luck and let us know what you end up doing.
D.
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| westernhorse51 |
Posted - Mar 11 2006 : 4:12:15 PM
I have my flowers growing all around the yard but veggies that are not in containers this will have a small white picket fence around them. I just love the way it looks.
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| Eileen |
Posted - Mar 11 2006 : 2:09:39 PM
I have had to put up a fence around my garden and strawberry bed this year because my free range chickens are such good tractors that they till up everything roots and all. No money so went to cenex and picked up all the free hardwood pallets they would let us have. Looks funny but it is free floating. I put them together with lag screws 3 per section and they hold themselves up. They are 4 feet tall and 3 feet wide. I put them up so they are 4 feet tall but have found that the chickens still can get over them so I am adding a 2 foot section to the top with just scrap pieces of 1 by 2 and some bird netting to keep them out. I think the fence will work for the deer but not for the raccoons that are great climbers. I know they look not so nice as a purchased fence but I live in the woods and nobody sees them but me and my friends so I don't think they will bother anybody.
Eileen
Songbird; singing joy to the earth |
| The Farmers Daughter |
Posted - Mar 11 2006 : 05:18:30 AM
We have several different fences around our place and all have been done on a shoe-string budget. In our very front yard (Around my Iris) we have an old snow fence painted white. In the front yard around our house we have a picket fence (Painted white) that is made from an old privacy fence. Right outside our back door and near our pool we have an old privacy fence that was picked up for $50. Then, around our herb gardens and our greenhouse (Made out of old windows) we have a split rail fence. This fence was picked up at an auction and I think Keith paid $30 for it. I love the way they all blend together and we get lots of compliments on them. Hugs, Sher
Sher, The Farmer's Daughter |
| LadyCrystal |
Posted - Mar 11 2006 : 04:20:24 AM
WE have so many deer around my houst that they jump over anything short enough to be cute.My husband even said it might not be worth putting one in.So I asked him if an electric fence would keep them out.He siad if it was high enough it would work.So We had 3 wire strands that ran around the whole thing.Didn't look cute but worked like a charm.
I was looking at a Better Homes and Garden magazine last night at the store.I think it was the Beds & Borders addition.It had a picture of the cutest fence.It was made out of small tree trunks.I wish I could have something like that.
Alicia
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| sugarsfarm |
Posted - Mar 10 2006 : 10:39:16 PM
well we have a lot of cats and a couple dogs...but we also have raccoons and opossums. I didnt even think about alternating the headboard/footbaord with something else!...hmmm
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi |
| Libbie |
Posted - Mar 10 2006 : 10:09:17 PM
We use regular steel fence posts and net fencing - not original, but darn effective! I think the headboards/footboards would be SO cute, too. I wonder if you could alternate them with something else if you can't find enough. What types of animals may need to be kept out?
XOXO, Libbie
"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Mar 10 2006 : 9:58:12 PM
I have always had a fence around my garden...but this year will be going to raised beds (Mona the cow has my big old fenced garden area that I have used the past three summers) and I am not sure what to do yet either. I hate the idea of no fence, but I have a feeling it will be that way at least for this next summer. I LOVE the idea of the metal headboards and footboards if you can find enough..that would be adorable!! Old rusty metal gates attached together would be cool too. I have access to as many pallets as I want and use them for alot of things..but my garden this year will be really really visible so I think I will have it be more open...at least give it a try.
Good luck...if you do the headboard/footboard fence I sure want to see a picture!!
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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| Alee |
Posted - Mar 10 2006 : 9:20:12 PM
What about recycling beat up wooden palets? Most lumber companies will give them away once a board or two has been broken but there is still lumber in them that can be used. |
