Dear Helen: From reading your column over several years, I gather that your garden is long-established and large.
I’m wondering at what point you would consider moving on to a smaller, more easily managed gardening space. I am asking because I’m at the point now of wanting to start over on a smaller property. I’d appreciate a little guidance on fencing, and on basic steps to setting up a new garden.The issue you raise is one I do think about often, much as I love my garden. In the current housing market, finding a suitable property that is affordable may be difficult, but one can dream.
Fencing. Some sort of boundary marker to define a property is desirable, in my opinion. It does not have to be a fence, though that is my preference. Once you have a specific garden space to define, a visit to a local fencing business should help you choose a type suitable for the space. If it suited the space to be fenced, and if the project appeared manageable, I’d erect a green chain link fence to enclose the back garden, which ideally would be shaped in enough of a rectangle to allow the creation of a walled garden, clothed in climbing plants trained against the fence to create walls of foliage, flowers and fruit through the summer.
One area could be used for perennial edibles — rhubarb, strawberries, asparagus, globe artichoke. Among vegetables, grow the ones you most like to eat. The warmest, sunniest corner could be used for Mediterranean herbs like thyme, rosemary, oregano and lavender.
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