Awesome! Thank you! I love herbs so I'm looking forward to that. I also downloaded a sheet showing what plants to plant and when.
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i'm going to try hardware wire over top of bed, maybe that will work for your grapes?
i hate the expense of the fencing but those tiny slots won't let much of anything in so maybe it will be worth it? crossing fingers
One thing you might want to think about is installing gutters that drain into rain barrels. I put them up first thing - the collecting barrels are 205 gallons and the storage tanks are 1,350 gallons. I got a good pump and transfer the water from the collecting barrels into the storage tanks when full. It doesn't take much rain, maybe like 1/4" and the collecting barrels will start to overflow. I usually have my storage tanks completely full after just 2-3 small rains. I then hook the pump up to my storage tank and pump into the redneck irrigation system I made which is just pvc laid out in my garden with a spigot for each row and a battery operated timer. I'll turn the pump on which pressurizes the pvc and the irrigation timers operate normally like they do when hooked up to the well/house water. I can operate this way for many months up till around July when I run out of rain water and then I'll go back on house/well water. It's not long though before the rains come again and the tanks are full. Even though I don't pay for well water I'm glad I fixed things up this way to conserve the well water as much as I can. Also the crops really take off on the rain water because it's a neutral pH - something they really need. The well water is around 7.6-7.8 but the rain is around 5.8-6.0.
Any suggestions for herbs that could survive outdoors during the summer? I'm renting this year but would like to get some flower boxes and I'm dreaming up ideas of things to plant.