No, actually do fence me in. That’s exactly what the next step is – adding a fence to the side of the garden. Even though it was great having some new-found privacy with the back fence, it looked a bit odd in the garden without any sides to the fence, so we started putting up a side fence to divide our garden from the neighbours. This time we weren’t lucky enough to find a used fence that we could ‘thrift’ so we had to actually buy it from new and start from scratch.
The plus side of this was that I could paint the fence planks before they were nailed to the supporting batons, which ensured that no gaps of unpainted wood appeared when the fence dried out (read my blog post about painting the back fence here) and I know for sure that the wood has been treated on all sides. Plus, our neighbour now has a nicely painted back of the fence to look at and we checked whether our colour choice was okay with them before we started! It took a couple of hours to paint all of the planks on both sizes and my cat Muffin decided to help out after the paint was dry!
So after a lot more painting and more mysterious painting-related leg aches, we put the newly-painted fence up and nailed it along the slightly sloped edge of the garden. I don’t mind the angle at all, not least because following the slope meant that we didn’t need to dig it out order to get a straight top to the fence! Anything that saves on digging is fine with me, especially because I know we’ve got a lot of digging to come when we put in our veggie patch! Even our nephew helped out with the construction work..!
We now have a completely enclosed corner of the garden and can start work on the veggie patch within this area. At the moment we are leaving the left-hand side of the garden un-fenced, because we are planning to bring shed panels into the garden that way. We can put up the rest of the fence after we have installed everything else!
