The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: escapedtothecountry on June 11, 2012, 10:10:47 pm
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Im sure the pesky rabbits will eventually get in, but Im quite proud of the job I've done to enclose my four raised beds. I can now actually put them to use without knowing the rabbits will get everything their nose touches!
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tidy job :thumbsup: !
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That is pretty good :thumbsup:
After looking and thinking it looks great but something is different to the picture I expected...it clicked...
I would never have thought of putting a grass path right around. :dunce: so simple yet necessary.
A good job well done to you :thumbsup: and something else learned by me :bouquet:
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That's great. Just what we are planning to do with ours. Is the wire buried?
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that looks great. :thumbsup:
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It looks really good. I know a lot of people back home have to enclose their gardens, sometimes with pretty robust fences (bears!). I wish we could enclose ours, it would keep the dog and or chickens out!
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I have done a bit more work to then. I "recycled" some of the thin wood slats that have come off our old roof and used them to go around the top of the fencing to make it a bit more stable. The vertical ones have now been cut to a consistent height.
No to grow something in them!
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Have you buried the fencing at the bottom EttC?
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No as it would have taken too much time so I hav put a course of bricks round the whole outside, and then will deal with rabbits digging as and when.
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Yes - we are in the process of gearing up to do exactly what you have just done.
We have access to a mini-digger so could dig the required trenches but it is a major piece of work :(
I did mention to OH last night that maybe we could just put slabs all round the perimeter but we have got about 350m to do :(
We are going to have a trial run this weekend and see just what a nauze it is.
I have to say that your fence looks beautiful. The exact archetype of what we are hoping to achieve. It's an inspiration :) :thumbsup: :trophy: :trophy:
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:thumbsup:
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Suzie, you can also put wire netting flat on the ground around the perimeter. Peg it down and the grass will grow through it and keep it firmly anchored.
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Would the grass paths not get wet and slippery in winter?
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(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g24/Misterdavid/gardenJune062.jpg)
(http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g24/Misterdavid/gardenJune061.jpg)
Some of my three foot high by 3 foot by three foot beds of raised beds as viewed from the lawn ( higher side ) they are only three feet wide and on the hidden side there is a mtr wide concrete path way all round so I never need to tread on the gardens .
Years ago when we had similar system to the OP's set up we had to put up electric tape to deter deer and stop horses rudding agains the posts .
I did how ever dig in a two foot width of chain link right round the beds to keep out rabbits , badgers and our dogs.
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Wow! :thumbsup:
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Would the grass paths not get wet and slippery in winter?
Probably - though I don't envisage doing loads in the raised beds in Winter time. My fall back situation is to use some of the old tiles that we saved when we had a new roof on the house to make a sort of rubble path which they turn into when you walk on them.