Need help with Peter Rabbit Potager :)
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Is it Ok to have raspberries in potager?
Comments (20)Had I read your post three years ago I would have done my best to convince you not to plant them with anything else. I keep my raspberries contained in a raised bed far, far away from anything else in the garden. And I live in California, where you can keep them contained simply by not watering around them, they have a hard time spreading into drought dried ground. In a place with more rainfall they could really escape and go wild. I always advise people to keep any bramble fruits (raspberry, blackberry, etc.) away from the garden. Strawberries, blueberries, currents, cranberries, or lingonberries are all welcome though, and many have ornamental value as well as tasty fruit. If you like things that are a little different you might want to check out a clove current, antioxidant-packed fruit and spicily scented flowers make it a favorite in my garden....See MoreHow many people putting in new potagers?
Comments (36)Thanks for the encouragement! I have to finish digging for the expanded dahlia bed and get them in before I can even begin on this project so I may be another week (especially since we have rain forecasted for the next few days) This year, for the center island, I am planning on a group of extra tall bamboo teepees with beans and nasturtium vines growing up them, surrounded by ornamental kales and cabbages. I am sure that I will be placing something sculptural (non-vegetable) in there at some point, but I'll have to wait and see what I come up with. This is definitely going to be a long term on-going project! I will try to document the whole thing as it happens and post in this forum when it starts shaping up....See MorePotager - which walls?
Comments (4)I just joined Garden web so I could reply to this. My mother has problems with deer, rabbits, snakes, moles (or other mouse like critters) and raccoons. Each animal comes with its own challenges. Deer take bites out of lots of things and then they decide what they will eat to the ground. Raccoons dig things up to find what is underneath. We have finally found the answer. Old gazebo frames. My dad isn't convinced that is aesthetically pleasing, but it is working. My sister and I set up the old metal frame (roof frame and all) on the side yard (adjacent to the forest preserve). We sewed heavy duty deer x on all four walls and let it extend onto the floor about a foot. Covering the roof is unnecessary for deer, but you could for birds. We used heavy duty landscape fabric to carpet the floor, covering the extra Deer x, then we used U shaped metal things to hammer the landscape fabric and the deer x into the ground. This formed a bunny barrier. They can't dig under it. (they chewed through it once, but we just patched it with a square of deer x and plastic zip ties. On one of the four walls, though, we needed to make a door. We layed a wall sized square of deer x on the ground and attached it on the ground with the metal U's and then we bring it up like a drawbridge and just use hooks to keep it up. Now she uses giant pots for her heirloom tomatoes, eggplant, herbs, etc. I keep telling her we could lay down some lumber all along the edges like a raised bed garden, but she is happy with her giant pots. (She uses plastic party tubs -the colorful kind with the rope handles that you would put a keg of beer in- they are pretty cheap. Then my dad drilled holes in the bottom for drainage.) Now, as far as a potager goes, the deer x and the gazebo frame are black, so the whole thing sort of disappears (depending on the background), and you could add white picket fencing or lattice around the gazebo for the potager effect. Also, you can buy strings of large Christmas lights and tie them on the roof of the gazebo in an X pattern or a square. If you had a large yard, you could arrange 4 gazebos in a square with pea gravel in between and all around. I really don't know how they do it on Martha Stewart and the victory garden. If that was at my parents house, it would all be eaten. I have been itching to share my secret. I bet you can get free gazebo frames on Craigslist because when the cover and the screen rips, it costs the same amount as a new one to replace the fabric. Good Luck! Joelle...See MoreBuilding a potager, need experience
Comments (13)We used a vinyl scalloped picket fence, and just as farmer_at_heart said, I had to run chicken wire along the base of the picket fence to keep out the bunnies. I cut a 2' high roll of 2" mesh chicken wire lengthwise to make long strips 1 foot high. This seems to be high enough to keep out the rabbits. Most of the time I don't even notice it's there. The vinyl fence is OK, but in retrospect I wish we had done something more natural looking. I guess it looks fine from a distance, but whenever I get up close to it, it looks like plastic to me. On the flip side, it never needs to be painted and is arguably the easiest of all fences to install. This is mainly because the brackets can be mounted anywhere on the post. So if you can get the post down 3 feet in the ground, then great - mount the brackets and drop the panel in place. If you can only get the post down 2 feet, then no big deal, just mount the brackets at that height and it will be fine. We have a lot of ledge around us, and 2 of my posts are only a few inches deep. This wasn't a problem really because I just dug out around the ledge as best I could, then poured a bag of concrete in the hole, then set the post and poured a little more concrete inside the hollow post. Once it dried, it was very stable, as the posts are now permanently bonded to the ledge. I just screwed in the brackets at the appropriate height and lopped off the top of the post. Point being, vinyl is very easy to work with. -Diggity...See More- 14 years ago
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