Last Saturday we finally had enough dry weather out here for Heather and I to get the last step in the caged garden done:
All the boxes have soil and plants. The green things are the plants.
All nine boxes are in place and Heather has planted mostly vegetables. Tomatoes on the left front, peppers in the front center, herbs right front, then some green leafy things that I am supposed to eat (they’re healthy I am told) and somewhere there are some carrots and sweet peas that were planted from seeds.
The outside of the cage still needs a bit of paint on the trim and Heather hasn’t hooked up the drip irrigation yet.
Bonus picture – I saw this on my walk by the creek today:
The writing on the side says, “danger.”
Had to make it out in this photo from my iPhone from about 100 yards away, but it’s a buoy from the reservoir just a mile upstream. It’s one of a set that warns boaters where the spillway is. Guess the recent rains and flooding broke it lose sending it downstream.
Hopefully nobody’s crazy enough to be out on the lake near the spillway in this weather.
If you need me – I’ll be in the garden,
Andrew
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Your garden looks great, esp now that I know the green stuff is growing plants. 😉 Do you have problems with deer in your area? We don’t, but something keeps eating our lettuce as soon as it sprouts. SO annoying. Crazy about that bottom picture.
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We don’t get deer in this area, but all the other forest critters manage to get over the fence and into things. We’d given up on some plants and hope the cage protects the plants.
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When are you going to vacation in San Diego, so you can build one of those for me? Bring the cats.
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I might be in the San Diego area next January, but I should point out that the cats aren’t very good at building things …
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The cats are for me to stroke lovingly as I make unhelpful comments while I watch you work.
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What a fantastic growing space. It came out so well.
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Came out better than I’d hoped for.
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Now that’s the way to do it…a caged garden! Beautiful! I will have to show my hubby this post. Last year we tried to plant things and it kept getting eaten. Right now I’m limited to things they won’t eat, like herbs, sour citrus, and some veggies. I’ve been picking my tomatoes green and letting them ripen indoors because whatever critter knows exactly when they ripen! But this is the idea! Keep us posted! I bet your harvest will be wonderful! 🙂
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We were inspired by the cutting gardens at Filoli. Basically it’s a 2×4 frame covered with chicken wire. Lets the bugs and bees in but keeps out bigger things like raccoons, cats and even deer if we had them. I just used cheap lumber so it didn’t cost much. I made the planter boxes so we could control the soil better and limit how much we had to water. It might work for you.
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Thanks so much! I will definitely look into this and see if my hubby can help me build one. Awesome! 🙂
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It might be worth it. We’re hoping it will be.
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Me too! I can only imagine your harvest (without critters) 🙂
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Now the second phase starts: planting.
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Yup and the watering and the waiting …
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That is a phenomenal garden! I can only imagine the bounteous rewards to come.
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It’s been a lot of work and we’re hopeful it will deliver.
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We have the dry weather, for the most part anyway. Still, the nights are a little chilly making us wait on gardening because the seeds might freeze. Besides, working out there with a jacket on is cumbersome.
Summer should be terrific this year for California.
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It’s shaping up to be a great summer.
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Excellent progress, Andrew. I bet it will taste great when harvested. 😀
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I am sure it will.
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I’d be happy to take some of those fresh vegetables off your hands… How wonderful that you grow your own!
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We’ve had problems in the past with growing veggies as the critters seem to get to them first. Hopefully this will let us get before the raccoons.
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Great garden. Good luck with a plentiful garden.
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Thanks, we’re hoping for a lot of good stuff from here.
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You will.
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There’s nothing tastier than home-grown veggies, Andrew. The project is looking good—and so are the young plants.
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We’re hopeful we’ll get a good crop. Last time we tried growing veggies the raccoons and other critters got most of the crop.
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Must’ve been delicious.
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That’s what the littler critters said.
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What critters are you trying to keep out with that fence? Our garden monsters are deer, chipmunks, groundhogs and rabbits.
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Here it’s cats, squirrels, raccoons, skunks and rats.
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Being in the garden is a good place to be. Wish I could join you. 🙂
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It is a nice place to be.
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Dry weather? What’s that?
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Dry weather is something you part of the world never gets.
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“finally had enough dry weather.” And here in Denver, everyone is excited because it might snow Friday. Feast or famine. Weather extremes. We’ve been warned …
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Weather extremes are the new facts of life. Here in the west (including the rockies) extreme swings in weather are likely to get worse.
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The caged garden is looking really good Andrew.
Hugs
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It’s finally coming together.
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I am still waiting for garden weather!
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The joys of California – long gardening season, with only enough water for part of it. 😉
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