Fence the Garden

 Fence the entire garden

Here's my inspiration: Our Edible Garden

It was supposed to be next year, but actually it will be less work to do it this year. Instead of making and digging two more wooden fences for new beds, I will fence (and dig) the entire garden this year. It's going to be lots of digging. Leave the shovel out there and do 20 minutes a day over a week to get it all done before planting out. 

Even Monty Don, my new garden crush, admits when he had to dig out the hard pan in his garden, he did it little-by- little over several days.

• Use existing hardware cloth and dig 1' down and angle out 1' like an "L" or like the inspiration idea, just clear the grass for 1 foot out from the fence line.
• Cover the 1' cleared area with mulch to keep grass from growing back into the garden beds and a neat look.
• Use 4' metal "U" posts pounded in 1', then use 4 foot Fencer Wire
• If necessary, add 1' chicken wire flopping out so groundhogs can't climb over, use cheap hanging plant brackets to overhang fence
• Add nice metal gate
• Remove as much grass from paths as possible, lay down cardboard or newspaper to kill remaining grass, cover with chips (from the tree if it gets taken down in the back, or ChipDrop) and available rocks