Garden Gate

Before:

Two tall posts and a wire door

 

After:

Finally a proper gate!

We did not follow any plans for the gate, except those in my head, haha.

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A few considerations we had when building the gate:

1. Keep it as light as possible by not using too much wood. We tried to avoid ending up with a sagging gate.
2. Have it wide enough for a wheelbarrow to easily go through.
3. Make it attractive as well as functional. I’m hoping to plant a clematis or another vine this fall that will grow over the top.

This year, our vegetable garden is very low key due to various circumstances. We have the herb garden producing full force, two rows of garlic, five tomato plants, and a few random potato plants that came back from last year.  The rest is weeds, haha.

So much sage! It comes back bigger and bigger every year!

Rows of garlic planted last fall and getting close to harvest.

Good old horse manure, laying in a pile and decomposing, ready to be worked in the soil this fall.

We’re knocking down our hilltop raised-bed gardens because the boards are rotting through. It’s been eight years, and although I’ll miss the beauty of it, it was getting to be too much to keep on top of those gardens as well as the garden pictured above.  And so my focus is going to be on this vegetable garden.

My dreams for the future of this garden: a beautiful potager garden. I’d love for it to be full of vegetables, annual flowers, a small bench, and bordered by perennials. It’s exciting to dream, and it seems more doable now that we’ve scaled back.

Well, I’m off to clip some herbs, because this year I’m attempting to….