A try at a Temporary Fix

Ok, I do think of gardening as my drug of choice. But that's not the kind of fix I'm talking about.

As I told you in my last post, the "Runny Babbit"s (this book will make you baugh your lutt off!) have decided to eat my lettuce for me. Well, I decided they didn't need to. So I bought some chicken wire and have yet to actually buy the wood for the completion of the project. If I actually buy the wood (might not cuz I'm cheep and might have to get wood that's sitting in our "wt" pile...though I'm fully aware that wood does not cost much at all) this will be the first year I've had a framed garden. So we'll see.

So this afternoon, while my husband was at a friend's Man Cave watching Wrestlemania (his grandma got him into WWE, formerly WWF, when he was 10 yrs old hehe), I decided to work on my temporary fix for the bunny issue. Here's the tools I used. I did decide to use some scraps of wood TEMPORARILY to weigh down the chicken wire and keep it from blowing away. It will blow away out here! You can use garden staples, which I was going to do and probably should have done. But I got way too excited taking apart a pallet that has been sitting around in my backyard. Maybe if I hadn't wasted my time with that, I would have gotten the project completed before the storm blew in. Oh well.

Ok, back on track. I used chicken wire 2'x50', wire cutters, zip ties, a measuring tape, a marker (which I just realized is not in the picture), hammer and nails (used if you are using wood. If not, add garden staples to this list and delete nails. Keep hammer for staples)


I first measured my garden. Then measured the chicken wire to what I needed. I needed 3 sheets measured 2' x 7 1/2'. This would cover the top and two long sides. The ends will be 2' x 2'. I still have yet to cut all these sheets out. I did however get one long side, the top, and one end cut.

After cutting, I bent the pointy wire ends inward so as not to get poked at when working in the garden..and on this project. Then I lined them up on the ground and began zip tying them together.
This is all she wrote because, as I worked, the wind became more and more fierce and then I noticed the clouds above me were very ugly. And soon, the rain came and I had to scramble and get all my supplies inside and my project under the dismantled pallet.




*sigh* This week is supposed to be a cold one. I'm not looking forward to it. We've had a long winter. Ok, a long winter for Tennesseans. And I'm ready for the weather to be beautiful and for Spring to be here for real...minus tornadoes. Which reminds me, I've got to go check the weather channel. So see you all!