Day 170

 It was great to see plants poking up through the soil almost immediately. However, this made our next project’s timeline much more of a pressing matter. From past experience, we knew the value of putting a fence around a garden. Losing plants you pour time and energy into can be quite deflating. With our garden much more spacious and including many more plants than ever before, that deflation would be compounded unless we protected our plants immediately. 

We had already put up a fence around our chicken yard so the process of installation wasn’t an issue. We just needed to find the time and financial flexibility to appropriately protect our plants. In a form my mouth to God;es ear moment, the say I planned on getting measurements taken and seeing if I could cobble together a fence with materials we already had or determine what tools I needed to purchase, I got a message.

The family of one of my students reached out to me and asked if I needed fencing. It seemed they were retiring their garden and had fencing available. It was perfect. I needed a fence. They wanted to get rid of theirs.

That same day, I drove to their house and picked up the fencing along with some posts and a wooden gate. After looking at our measurements, it was almost too good to be true. The amount of fencing I just picked up was basically the exact same amount of fence we needed to protect our new and improved garden.

With time being an issue, we got to work on putting up the fence as soon as we found a pocket of time. Finding that pocket of time can sometimes be elusive, but within a few days my wife and I erected the fence around our garden. We still need to find another pocket of time  to update and upgrade the gate, but for the time being the plants are thriving, safe from pesky critters looking to undo the work we had already put in.

The garden needed protection from animal friends. It got it. The plants needed water. They got it, but not as easily as we hoped.