Smartie's Bar & Grill #71

I know that would look nice, but it's not what I want.

 

Ribeye steak, salad, baked taters, garlic toast. Oh yeah, and ice cold watermelon for dessert. What RU peasants eatin?

 

Got my storage box built....except hardware. It is made from reclaimed wood and finished with linseed oil. I used dowels to put it together and used no stain. I did the joinery a little differently. I glued together the box and drilled the dowel holes from the outside after it was glued....butt joined....I just crimped the dowel with my wire pliers .....to catch glue...and tapped them in with a hammer. No nails or other metal fasteners. Need to find some nice old fashioned hinges....and latch.

 

Good plan. I like that livestock fence too.

 

Sounds great!

 

Thanks...am thinking about making some wood stain from pokeberries for my next project. See if I can't get some purple pine.

 

How about the beverage.Gotta wash them Eats down,y'know.
Sometimes the beverage is the highlight of fine dining.
I'm thinking a nice year { 1959 } :
Romanee-Conti

 

Monday Morning Fun Facts.
I just saw a site where they list the smallest towns in each state.
Alaska has a town with a population of 1.
Birch Creek.
Therefore I'm thinking of starting my own Town.
Not to be confused with - My Own Private Idaho -{ 1991 }

 

Back at work today! The knee recovered sooner than expected.

Now, I've moved on to digging up the overgrown rocks.

 

Perfect rocks! Do one of these..


Or this..

 

A lot of the areas along the woodline of our property look like that. If I want to plant anything there I have to go in with a pickaxe.

I don't need to tell you it's a pain in the butt. It takes twice the time and effort to dig a stupid hole...

 

I put those there as a temporary border. Then, I let them become overgrown.

 

I want the stone carpet. Will you make one for me?

 

Nice.

When it comes to Rhodies I've got a black thumb - I've killed every one I've planted.

After watching a show about Mountain Laurels I think I finally figured out where I was screwing up - the soil. We've got heavy clay soil and the poor unfortunate plants that made it into my possession didn't take to it. Next time I'm going to amend it with a bunch of peat moss and other organic stuff to get the soil light and fluffy and hopefully that will do the trick.

 

Not exactly the definition of a Rock Garden.Plus those rocks
must been pressed into some kind of putty or mortar.Then secured with
some kind of clear coat sealant.

 

It's amazing what you can do with livestock panels.

The host of Growing a Greener World on PBS used them to make tomato cages and I must say it was a great idea:



After cutting them down to size with bolt cutters he bends them into an L-shape using a 2X4 and then puts two of those panels together to make the box.

I've been using an older technique that gardeners down here in Virginia have been doing since the Colonial Era, which is making tomato tables out of sticks or logs:



The tomato tables I make use much heavier sticks to better support the plants and tomatoes and are lower to the ground. I've never found the need to make them as high as you see in the photo.

Then there's this method, which is a lot less work using some fence and sticks:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HPNR2H35eHE/S6vU-5y_xDI/AAAAAAAARY0/Tl_SdJzVMO4/s1600/IMG_2934.JPG

I like having easier access to the plants, but whatever works...

 

Thanks for the idea on the border wall.

The chain-link fence WILL be ripped out. No alternatives will be considered.

 

I have a cage made out of a livestock panel and wire rope connectors.

 

Do you think it would look out of place, if it was that pewter color?

 

We did a pond made of cinder block and covered it with a pebble mosaic. We used a catch and hold glue to hold the pebbles and used a sand and cement mix to fill in the gaps. Then....after it dried ...we covered the whole thing in fiberglass resin. Took a whole summer. Laid the block...rubbed a cement grout over that...glued in the pebbles...and grouted the rock in.. It is still out there....had picks on my other phone. We used river rock pebbles ....in bags....from Home Depot. And some pebbles from the Dollar Tree.

 

Wish I could get your old chain link fencing....and any posts ....steel T-post and tie wire make good goat fence. Waste not want not.

 

It might stand out, but that is not necessarily a bad thing.

 

There are some options for recycling it. A sticking point is the concrete in the ground. Habitat for Humanity doesn't want the fence without the posts, but they don't want the 100lbs. of concrete, either.

 

Good suggestion, and the rocks/stone are optional. All you really need is a bed and TC could fill the space with smaller plants. I would use perennials because I'm too lazy to deal with annuals.

What you say about straight and curvilinear lines and shapes in a yard or garden is true and we use both on our property. For our ornamental plantings we like to use curved beds and for our vegetable garden we went with the more formal look of rectangular beds and straight paths you see in a lot of Medieval potagers, or taken to the extreme, the elegant fruit and vegetable garden at Villandry:



There's a beautiful combination of both at Waterperry Gardens in England:

https://www.waterperrygardens.co.uk/

I can only wish I had the space, money and time for something like that, but I'm glad I don't have to maintain it.