I think spring is finally here! Gardening!

Yes, you need a smaller gauge chicken wire. We have a fence that is a heavier wire, but the baby bunnies were getting in last year. I had to attach chicken waitress all along the bottom. As Pam said things will tunnel under, so you have to watch that. We have problems with chipmunks.

Here's our fence.....these pictures were taken in 2011. The garden is quite a bit larger now as every year we tend to enlarge it by a little each time. The fence has smaller holes down around the bottom with holes a bit larger toward the top. And you can see where we put a couple landscaping tiles along the bottom; that was a favorite spot for the groundhogs to try to burrow under.


See those leafy plants right outside of the garden fence? That's our stash of horseradish. Horseradish is a perennial, so once you plant it, it will come back. The original roots are probably around 20 years old now! My aunt gave them to me and we planted them when we had our first garden years and years ago. I keep wanting to plant more, but really, it's not needed. I dig up a root every other year and that gives me enough horseradish for about 18 months, give or take. It makes a lot. (Wear a gasmask or work with it outside. I'm serious. Really nasty stuff.) The horseradish is now inside the garden fence, not outside like it is in these pictures.


Hope the pictures help you find the fencing you're looking for.

Thank you they help a lot!  I looked up online about the baby bunnies to see if I could figure out how long they'll be around.  Looks like they are really newborns!  I had a bottle of that liquid fence stuff so I've been spraying that around till I can get a fence of some sort up.  I also added more pinwheels and planted marigolds in the garden itself.  So far no new damage.  Hopefully I can get things fenced soon!  I dont want to fence right at the edge of the beds since my garden is just 2 4x8 raised beds.  Things tend to hang off the sides and I'll need room to walk.  

My Dad suggested loosely attaching the wire to the posts so DH can remove it when he goes to mow.  Then he said "You know; we are sitting here talking about getting rid of bunnies and I have 3 looking back at me."  I totally forgot Dad's girlfriend has 3 pet rabbits.  I hope they don't hold it against him! 

You may do well to bury the chicken wire 18" or so to prevent the rabbits from digging under it.

Re: horseradish - it can be invasive and it does seem to live forever. Decades ago, a neighbour put some at the edge of her garden and now 70 years later the ditch by that yard is full of the stuff. It IS horrible stuff to work with - I was the one who operated the grinder when the time came for that job. Was always outside and I would stand there, eyes and nose streaming from the stench released. Hate the stuff, cannot and will not eat it.

The garden is in. We planted five 25 foot rows of corn, 12 tomato plants, 12 peppers (8 bell peppers and 4 mariachi), 12 broccoli plants, one row each of green beans, wax beans, and lima beans, 4 zucchini plants, and (yeah, trying again) 12 cucumber plants. We rotated the entire garden out, hoping to avoid blight. We bought a spray that's supposed to help with blight and with tomato rot (we had some tomato rot last year). We have tons of strawberry flowers and even some berries have formed! The netting is over the strawberry plants, so we shouldn't have to fight with the birds  / We didn't measure it out yet, but Rick thinks it's about 25 x 50 feet or so. It's a nice size for us.

The fence is up, too; we need some more fence poles to tighten the fence up a bit.

It was a very productive day. Tomorrow we will work on the flower beds.

Mooch, did you get back into the bunnies' good graces??? 

We've set out 8 tomato plants this year; they are starting to bloom and with all the rain we're getting, they are growing like wild.  My thornless blackberries are blooming and covered in berries, though none have ripened yet.  Same thing with the blueberries.  One kiwi bloomed and did nothing, as usual.  I am starting to suspect there is no male pollinator among the kiwi vines.    But I have enough strawberries to feed an army.  Daisy and I have what we call a "strawberry party" almost every night...I have strawberries with melted chocolate and she has strawberries.  She gets them all over the place, too. 

As of today, the vegetables have been planted.

Do you sell them,eat them yourselves,or just give them away ?

NICE!!!!! What are those "spikey" plants? In the center of the picture?

Is that a path down the center of your garden? I like that idea.

Weedlings! I like that term will have to "steal" it from you. Great pictures, Mooch. I really like your raised beds.

And awwwwwww...........bunnies! Aren't they just adorable? (Gardens notwithstanding, that is)

One of the bunnies was at the very bottom of my steps on the patio when I went to check the garden this morning.  I had to step over him to get down.  He went and hid under my grill; which is tucked in the corner between the steps and the house.  I didn't have the camera handy.  They are soo cute!  Still small enough to fit in my hand.    (Don't worry; I won't touch them. I just like to look!)

Baby anythings are cute, but bunnies ranks among the top 3 in cuteness. Kittens is first, of course. Followed by puppies.

dejolane said:

AbbysMom said:

As of today, the vegetables have been planted.

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Do you sell them,eat them yourselves,or just give them away ?

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We eat them and give extra to friends and family.

Winchester said:

AbbysMom said:

As of today, the vegetables have been planted.

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NICE!!!!! What are those "spikey" plants? In the center of the picture?

Is that a path down the center of your garden? I like that idea.

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Thanks, we can't take any credit for the design. It was like that when we moved in. . I took some more pics wIth my phone when I went to pick asparagus this morning. I'll try to post them.

Those aren't vegetables. :lol3: The previous owners had flowers in the front part of the garden and I've moved most of them out to the flower beds, except for those. They are wild amaryllis. There are also some wild English poppies in that front part.

Those bunnies are adorable Leighann. :heart2:

I think it will be fairly easy to fence in your beds. . We had talked about putting raised beds in our garden, but didn't want to deal with the work. :lol3:.

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From the outside. Rose are blueberry bushes on the right.

This mess that needs weeding is the asparagus.

Wow your garden looks huge! I like my raised beds but I wonder if it doesn't waste some space. Our yard is just super sandy so in a way it was easier to buy the kits for the bed and get the soil from a garden center. DH did the hardest work of course!

It's nice to see nature at work. I love to watch deer crossing the road.

We have what the neighbors, snooty horsey types, call a redneck garden. We have red potatoes, onions, tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, and a complete herb garden. Flowers for days, all over the porch and in the front yard.

Fluffy patrols the garden for "varmints" and pulls the moles right out of ground when they go by her.

I think what really bugs them is the old toilet that sits in the backyard, just as a joke we planted cucumbers in it, boy were we surprised when not only did they grew, but they were very tasty. I's not as if anyone had used it for many years, it had been there 30 years that I know of, probably longer.

I always get a good giggle when I see it, so dh promised he will always plant cukes in it. Ain't love grand.