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Posted by lauragardens z5 MA (My Page) on Mon, Apr 18, 05 at 19:44
| I'm in the process of fencing in a new vegetable garden (30x15). I got the green metal stakes and the rabbit fencing (narrower gauge at the bottom), and I've buried strips of hardware cloth at the bottom to discourage voles, moles, and shrews.
I'm stumped about how to make gates. I can use some of the spare rabbit fencing (wire with green plastic coating), but how do I attach it to the fence (hinges?, latch?) and stiffen it?
Thanks for any tips for this newbie. |
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RE: vegetable garden gate?
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| When I built my last garden's fencing similar to yours, I bought a ready-made gate from either Home Depot or Lowe's. It wasn't expensive & was marvelously functional & a real time-saver over trying to make one myself. |
RE: vegetable garden gate?
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| I used a piece of the fencing as a gate, I simply cut a piece wider than the opening, wrapped some of the wire around the fence as hinges and bent the opposite end over to hook it closed on the other side. works for me jim |
RE: vegetable garden gate?
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| More an addition than an answer: if you have to operate a gate, make a place for putting down the armload of vegies, or tools - that you can reach from either side. And, if you have to step aside - put in a concrete pad, or similar, for standing on because it doesn't take long to carve out a muddy patch to the side of the path. |
RE: vegetable garden gate?
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| We nailed the fencing to a 2X4 one the "door" edge. Then on the "wall" side we made strong twisted wire loops at the top and bottom. When I come or go & simply slip the loops off or onto the board ends. It helps that my husband tapered the ends. If you're interested, I can take a picture of it to post. We also piled rocks up against the bottom of the fence on both sides to deter the javelina. |
RE: vegetable garden gate?
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- Posted by Buzzy 8PugetSound (My Page) on
Mon, May 9, 05 at 17:18
| Building our chicken run taught us a lot. To make a gate, frame the limp material. We used 1 X 2's, make a rectangle and staple the netting to it. It's rigid if you put a triangular brace across. If you have rigid gateposts you can use hinges and a latch, or you can use wire loops for both. Top and bottom on the hinge side, and just top or middle for the latch. If you're worried about critters getting under, as we were, you make a threshold. Dig your fencing material in as deep as you need to make it, then leave several inches sticking up above ground (fold a couple inches over to make a smooth edge). If it's floppy nail a board across from gatepost to gatepost and staple the fencing material to it. Then when you close the gate it snugs up to the bottom threshold. |
RE: vegetable garden gate?
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| Thanks to everyone for all the helpful suggestions. Buzzy, I think you've given me just what I need. I'm especially interested in the threshold idea. Now I have to figure out how to get that one shrew/vole/whatever OUT of the enclosed area -- he's drilling around by the new asparagus bed! |
RE: vegetable garden gate?
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| put your garden hose in the vole tunnel and flood the tunnels. Stand by with a large flat blade shovel, and when you see a section of the tunnel move, whack it as hard as possible........Vole murder and burial all in one whack, no poisons, no corpse to look at or agonize over....DONE. |
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