Baymule's 2018 Garden

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Today I worked on rabbit proofing the garden. I raked away 4” of rich black soil from the fence. It came from the pine shavings we put down 3 years ago.

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I sprawled our in the dirt, hog ringing chicken wire to the garden fence.

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I had help.

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I got 50’ of chicken wire hog ringed to the fence and 25’ of plastic coated chicken wire hog ringed to the bottom of the fence, laid flat on the ground to keep the VARMITS from digging under.

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I don't think your gonna have many varmits:thumbsup
 

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Last year rabbits mowed down half of the garden. :he:tongue:rant:somad:smack
 

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Not enough grass for them? :idunno :lol:

We see few rabbits....had a couple pair of fox nearby for a while and they kept the rabbit numbers way, way down. Then chickens became desirable. My neighbors then took the numbers of fox way, way down!

I have more trouble keeping chickens out of my garden than most anything else. Rascals come right over the 4' fence. Free range has it's faults.

Just had two days of great sunshine and 35mph winds steady, 45-50 mph gusts. All you could do was dodge what was flying at you! At this moment, I'm thinking one tomato plant may be my goal :old Some days get tough to handle. :p
 

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Yep, my own chickens are my worst enemy, lol. But, I've already started covering the openings in the stock panels with welded wire. I'll extend it beyond the top of the panels too - beats catching every critter and clipping wings...
 

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baymule, that looks great and I love the "helper"!

I'm a bit worried about rabbits here in my future garden. Ireland is infested with the things lol About 200 yards down the road from me one way, there is a house with a massive lawn in front. Every day, at the right time, you will find up to 12 wild rabbits grazing there. About 100 yards the other way from my house, in the adult education centre's backyard, we sometimes see rabbits grazing too. So there are plenty of them around...
 

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Today DH joined me on working on the rabbit fence. I rolled out another roll of green plastic coated chicken wire on the ground and hog ringed it to the bottom of the garden fence. I hog ringed another roll of chicken wire to the fence and laid 2 more rolls on the ground. DH laid paper Feed sacks and cardboard over what I laid yesterday and covered it with wood chip mulch.

He had to dump mulch in the wagon and take to the end.

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Dumping from the tractor is much easier!

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Almost done.

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A good days work! I have used almost three pounds of hog rings. My right hand is sore.

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