Hi all, I have 2 400×2000 raised vege gardens sitting next to each other. I also have a 5 month old Labrador…

What I would like are options on how to fence it cheaply without annoying the missus (can’t be an ugly messy fence).

ideas and suggestions?

I was considering chicken wire and star pickets (surprisingly, the missus’ idea…) but there’s the problem of accessing the vege patch then without a gate of sorts?

hannos said:

Hi all, I have 2 400×2000 raised vege gardens sitting next to each other. I also have a 5 month old Labrador…

What I would like are options on how to fence it cheaply without annoying the missus (can’t be an ugly messy fence).

ideas and suggestions?

I was considering chicken wire and star pickets (surprisingly, the missus’ idea…) but there’s the problem of accessing the vege patch then without a gate of sorts?

we did the chicken wore and star pickets to keep the ducks out. It wasn’t pretty. We fashioned a gate by having the final section not join up with the start, but was still cable tied to a star picket itself. we used some wire to form a loop and the top of the star picket would be poked into the loop and jammed in close to the start. Fence closed.

oh to add there may be the occasional soccer ball flying around that needs to be deflected :P

I am seriously considering bird netting, it’s more easily handled.

Can you get a friend to whack up some custom frames, you can attach your aviary wire to these, from packing pallets? They don’t have to be flash, just stand up in their own right. YOu could have two per bed, half and half…

I’m not sure where you are, but I was thinking of shade cloth for one that might have sun sensitive vegetables in it…

An old bed frame, one of those tublar ones? They would be wider than the beds I think, and you can cover with bird netting to suit.

Can’t help with the soccer ball attacks, sorry…

A dog will be rough on a fence unless trained otherwise. Similar to kickers of soccer balls.
A garden fence can be knocked up out of all sorts of scrap apart from the asthetics. It does depend upon whether you want to feel happy every time you look at it or when the queen visits like.

A cockies type gate is simply a panel of the fence that unclips and swings away. Clips back as easily.

To stop untrained flying dogs and unrestrained balls, then the fence needs to have sturdy enough posts to keep it tight.

Hunt around on Gumtree for some used corrugated iron, hold in place with star pickets and paint a nice gardeny mural on it.

Teleost said:

Hunt around on Gumtree for some used corrugated iron, hold in place with star pickets and paint a nice gardeny mural on it.

Yep. The point is that there is rubbitch laying about everywhere that is free to pick up. The problem is to make it acceptable to the neighbours.

Why didn’t I look out the door at my neglected vege patch?

I’m using old pool fencing that I picked up for next to nix – again from Gumtree. I’ve got some for the vege garden and another panel at the side of the house to stop the dogs getting to the front yard and swimming in my bathtub pond.

If you hunt round, you could probably find a matching gate.

Probably only need temporary fencing for, say, 2 years, until the Labrador grows out of the digging phase…

Dinetta said:

Probably only need temporary fencing for, say, 2 years, until the Labrador grows out of the digging phase…

Or gets trained. My dogs have always been trained that any dug earth is out of bounds. I recall my neighbours telling me once that they knew immediately when we had a new dog by the sound of me calling out “OFF THE GARDEN! Good dog, good dog”. It only takes a couple of weeks if you can set about doing it. You have to be out there, wait for the transgression and then correct and praise.

It’s amusing later if areas of the grass go blank in Summer and the dogs feel they have to go around them…..

:)

Dinetta said:

Probably only need temporary fencing for, say, 2 years, until the Labrador grows out of the digging phase…

Bwhahahaha!
And a nice fresh load of compost/blood & bone/horse poo later………

Eski’s now 4 and while he’s pretty good these days, he will still have a dig if he thinks no one’s looking. Especially if there’s something nice and smelly like B&B or Pepper (8 months) has put a bone down to age.

Teleost said:

Bwhahahaha!
And a nice fresh load of compost/blood & bone/horse poo later………

Shadow (labrador) just rolls in this…such shouts of joy from Yours Truly when I discover this at 22:30 … about the only digging he does is under fences to get to the baby chickens…he does worry about their safety after sundown…

We just have a two wire hooks that fasten the first and last panel together.
Just unhook, pull open, and hook back up when your finished. It’s not chicken wire though, it’s the chain wire that they make fences out of.

bubba louie said:

We just have a two wire hooks that fasten the first and last panel together.
Just unhook, pull open, and hook back up when your finished. It’s not chicken wire though, it’s the chain wire that they make fences out of.

Cyclone fencing. Yes a simple hook up cockies gate.

roughbarked said:

bubba louie said:

We just have a two wire hooks that fasten the first and last panel together.
Just unhook, pull open, and hook back up when your finished. It’s not chicken wire though, it’s the chain wire that they make fences out of.

Cyclone fencing. Yes a simple hook up cockies gate.

That’s it, cyclone fencing, I couldn’t think of the name.

bubba louie said:

roughbarked said:

bubba louie said:

We just have a two wire hooks that fasten the first and last panel together.
Just unhook, pull open, and hook back up when your finished. It’s not chicken wire though, it’s the chain wire that they make fences out of.

Cyclone fencing. Yes a simple hook up cockies gate.

That’s it, cyclone fencing, I couldn’t think of the name.

It keeps the wallabies out but we need to do something about the possums.

bubba louie said:

bubba louie said:

roughbarked said:

Cyclone fencing. Yes a simple hook up cockies gate.

That’s it, cyclone fencing, I couldn’t think of the name.

It keeps the wallabies out but we need to do something about the possums.

I’ve generally been lucky with possums. I’ve never had the problem though doubtless I will at some time before I slip the mortal coil. Presumably some fencing with smaller holes but completely coverung the whole garden. I hear they aren’t fond of fresh dogshit but hey, neither am I.

roughbarked said:

bubba louie said:

bubba louie said:

That’s it, cyclone fencing, I couldn’t think of the name.

It keeps the wallabies out but we need to do something about the possums.

I’ve generally been lucky with possums. I’ve never had the problem though doubtless I will at some time before I slip the mortal coil. Presumably some fencing with smaller holes but completely coverung the whole garden. I hear they aren’t fond of fresh dogshit but hey, neither am I.

Total coverage is the plan for the veg garden but we have a small orchard up the back as well as quite a few fruit trees closer to the house. We’re thinking metal collars on the Turks where possible and exclusion bags.

The birds are a bit of an issue as well, but green harvest has some foil tape that they claim is proving to be an effective bird scarer.