What did you do in the garden today?

[igorsMistress]

I am now feeding them several times a day on a plant saucer. Big breakfast and then I let them out, give them light feeding in between locking them up in the afternoon, then let them out again about 3-4pm and then big feed in the eve when I lock them back up. I am saving on food and I am grateful to be around usually but I would love to not be robbed. Yes I have their run surrounded by a 5' run and 1/2 shade cloth but the wild ones hop the fence NO PROBLEM. Think bird netting for the rest would work.

Yes it likely would. I'm almost at that point myself. I told hubs I'm ready to do that or quit keeping chickens for a while. It's not likely I'll quit but

 

[WthrLady]

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[TropicalBabies]

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That is beautiful! Great job @WthrLady !!!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Well back new territorial seed catalog

 

[BReeder!]

I designing our new garden fence. I have to move the existing one, so I figure it's best to just take it down and build new. Plus I'll be running the garden all the up to our duck pen, which has a different fence, so I'm going to incorporate that into the project as well and make them match.
I'm thinking landscape timber (treated 3x4 roughly with two rounded sides) posts dug 3ft down and 8ft apart with treated 2"x3" rails. The fence will be 4ft tall. I'll attach galvanized welded wire (2"x4" spacing) to the rails. Then I'll add hardware cloth along the bottom to keep the rabbits out and to keep the ducks from sticking their heads through their fence to eat my garden. Here's a sketch of a section of the fence without the wire drawn in.

I'm not absolute on this design just yet. If you have any ideas or perhaps would like to share a pic of your own garden fence, I'd love to hear/see your ideas. Ultimately the goal is to keep rabbits, poultry and the dog out (or inside in the case of the duck run) while still looking nice and letting light through. The poultry are typically enclosed in their runs, so I'm not overly concerned about chickens or turkeys flying over the 4ft garden fence. When the birds are out on the lawn, we tend to be out there with them so I'll be able to keep an eye on them.

 

[WthrLady]

get yourself some creosote posts from the farm store for your main posts - keep the holes as small as possible and flair the bottom of the hole and concrete them in - and use treated 2bys on the ground horizontal and you can get away with untreated 2bys on the top horizontal. For your center horizontal you can either go with a treated sunk 2by or a metal Steel T post, sunk deep.

Those landscape timbers you are talking about using aren't meant for the vertical and curve as they go through the wet dry cycle and crack and split. Fence posts are center drawn and treated and are meant to take the cycles and the tension and weight of a fence.

 

[karenerwin]

I designing our new garden fence. I have to move the existing one, so I figure it's best to just take it down and build new. Plus I'll be running the garden all the up to our duck pen, which has a different fence, so I'm going to incorporate that into the project as well and make them match.
I'm thinking landscape timber (treated 3x4 roughly with two rounded sides) posts dug 3ft down and 8ft apart with treated 2"x3" rails. The fence will be 4ft tall. I'll attach galvanized welded wire (2"x4" spacing) to the rails. Then I'll add hardware cloth along the bottom to keep the rabbits out and to keep the ducks from sticking their heads through their fence to eat my garden. Here's a sketch of a section of the fence without the wire drawn in.
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I'm not absolute on this design just yet. If you have any ideas or perhaps would like to share a pic of your own garden fence, I'd love to hear/see your ideas. Ultimately the goal is to keep rabbits, poultry and the dog out (or inside in the case of the duck run) while still looking nice and letting light through. The poultry are typically enclosed in their runs, so I'm not overly concerned about chickens or turkeys flying over the 4ft garden fence. When the birds are out on the lawn, we tend to be out there with them so I'll be able to keep an eye on them.

We used cattle panels, which made it a lot taller than 4ft. I attached hardware cloth around the bottom to keep out chipmunks, rabbits , squirrels and such. Later I went back and put hardware cloth along the entire thing. I also curved a cattle panel across from one side to the other and used that to grow vine type green beans on. I used shorter sections of cattle panels turned on their side to grow the tomatoes and cherry tomatoes against. It worked really well to tie/anchor the tomato plants to them. I also had my cucumbers climbing up them!
Not sure it would look nice enough for you and the height might be total overkill, but I just thought I would share what I did.

 

[karenerwin]

Today it was 70 degrees out here!
Unfortunately, I don't feel good so I wasn't able to take advantage of the nice weather. I think I am either battling a cold or allergies. I have a scratchy, sore throat and not much energy. I had chills for a bit, but no fever. I did go get my allergy shot today and I stopped to check on my Mom since no one had been able to get a hold of her since Saturday afternoon. Normally I wouldn't go there if I am feeling a bit under the weather. She apparently, did not make it back from the hospital with her phone charger so her cellphone was dead. When anyone tried to call her room directly, her roommate ( in the rehab center) answered. She wasn't able to get the phone over to my Mom's side of the room or my Mom was asleep or not in the room!
Anyway, my Mom is having a hard time of things at the moment. They are checking to see if she has C-diff, but I think this is just how her body reacts when she over stresses it. Although she has had C-diff in the past, so it is a definite possibility.
I took her an extra phone charger, plus batteries for her hearing aids. I also told her to call my brother's after her phone was charged up.
My brother texted much later to say that he had talked to her but she thought she had just gotten there today! (This is day 3).
Hopefully this mental impairment is just a result of the anesthesia. They say that the older you are, the more it affects you memory and cognition. Often, it is just a temporary thing.
When I got there, there was a lady assessing her memory and cognition and she said they will be working on them with her as well as the OT & PT.

Hopefully, I will have enough energy tomorrow to clean out the big coop! It is supposed to turn cold and snow on Wednesday. Ugh, I just checked the weather, it is supposed to rain ALL day tomorrow.

 

[BReeder!]

We used cattle panels, which made it a lot taller than 4ft. I attached hardware cloth around the bottom to keep out chipmunks, rabbits , squirrels and such. Later I went back and put hardware cloth along the entire thing. I also curved a cattle panel across from one side to the other and used that to grow vine type green beans on. I used shorter sections of cattle panels turned on their side to grow the tomatoes and cherry tomatoes against. It worked really well to tie/anchor the tomato plants to them. I also had my cucumbers climbing up them!
Not sure it would look nice enough for you and the height might be total overkill, but I just thought I would share what I did.

I cannot find cattle panels ag a reasonable price around here, at last nowhere near the price of a 50ft roll of welded wire at the big box stores. I'm able to get 50'x4' galvanized welded wire with 2"x4" spacing for $29.99. One 16ft cattle panel is $18 I think. I am sure castle panel is a thicker gauge wire, but I don't need to keep out a cow.

 

[karenerwin]

I cannot find cattle panels ag a reasonable price around here, at last nowhere near the price of a 50ft roll of welded wire at the big box stores. I'm able to get 50'x4' galvanized welded wire with 2"x4" spacing for $29.99. One 16ft cattle panel is $18 I think. I am sure castle panel is a thicker gauge wire, but I don't need to keep out a cow.

I put them up to keep out the deer!