April 2012, We have had a very busy April this year with all the things we have started and we are wanting to get done. This is the Veggie garden this year. First we planted the broccoli and cauliflower and the peas in April and the the carrots and onions. In May we added the beans and corn, peppers and the tomatoes. Peas came in kinda sketchy but the beans look great don't they. It's now June and the corn is about knee high. Then tradgedy struck. I went out one morning to find the leaves were gone off the beans!! Dang Wabbits!! We spent the next three nights putting up a fence around the garden. My neighbor Walt had given me all the posts and boards from his old white fence when he replaced it with the new white vinyl one you can see there in the back ground. We debated which fencing to get and went with the least expensive green plastic mesh which turned out to be a mistake. The rabbits chewed right through it and got in again. So we went back and got a wire mesh fence that we put up over the green plastic. Now we need to figure out some kind of gate.
On June 8th we picked our first harvest from the garden, the broccoli. We got 8 heads of broccoli and they are now in the freezer. Today, June 14th we picked our first peas and more broccoli shoots. Yay!
The Gate turned out awesome. It is just made of PVC pipe and the wire mesh we bought for the fence is just zip-tied onto it. I screwed a flat 1x3 onto the posts just over hanging about 1 1/2 " on either side and then just slide the gate up to take it off. I can fit the rotiller through the opening, then just slide the gate down in again, no hinges, no swing, no sag, awesome! No more pesky wabbits and it will keep the deer out also!
Here is an updated picture of the garden taken later in June. We put the poles in for the beans and the cages around the tomatoes. The rabbits have not been in the garden since we put up the wire mesh. Everything is looking good!
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