Garden Fence: Part 1
Human engineering to defeat canine thievery.
There is a thief that lives among us. He is black as shadow and is cute as a button. He loves strawberries and tomatoes. His name is Strider.
Strider has also made a habit of standing on the garden beds in winter (I think it's because they're warmer than the rest of the back yard) and has gotten too comfortable doing so. We don't want our precious garden soil to get compressed, and lead to any animosity between us and our beloved dog.
Being a resourceful bunch, we figured we needed to use our human ability to build a structure to solve this problem.
The Plan
We decided to go for a wooden fence, with a 1" x 2" wire grid stapled to the fence frame. We planned for the posts to go 2' into the ground, then pour concrete into the post holes to set the posts and ensure they stay straight as long as possible.
The Build
After picking up the material from Home Depot, utilizing some gift cards that were burning a hole in our pocket (Thanks Mom & Dad), we met up at the build site and got started. With a solid plan, and lots of manpower, we were able to quickly get the fence set up. We were lucky with where the roots were, where there were roots, a quick cut with some pruners did the trick.
We had a lunch break that included perogies, a delicious cream sauce (DELICIOUS), and some homemade lemonade (thanks Diana!). After that, we worked on finishing the frame, then setting the posts straight and pouring concrete in the post holes to make them solid.
Phase 1 - Complete
By the end of the day, we had a fully framed fence that was somewhere between, level, straight and looking about right. Our next steps will be finishing the frame off, adding a gate and putting up the wire grid.
I am so happy to have this project nearly complete, and I'm very glad I had so much help, it made for a perfect sunny mid-April day. I am also grateful for my infinitely intelligent wife that demanded we rent a post hole auger, rather than me breaking my back doing it by hand.
Stay tuned for Phase 2, which will include the finished product (and hopefully more green in the picture!)
