Another Garden to show off.

Here is a barage of photos:

If you are going to plant you have to have soil. 150 tons of topsoil and 30 tons of composed horse maune in my case.

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You also have to have a fence to keep out the deer and if you live here that means to plunge through rock.

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We set these post good and about two feet deep and in an 18 inch diameter hole. Each post got from 180-240 lbs of concrete poured around them.

There are corner post and there are proper corner post. This is a 5 (technically 4.5 post, due to the shared center post) system it is unshakable.

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Here is a wide shot of over all in early stages

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Here is a long shot of it in stages.

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Here is a shot of what will become the 9 foot front gate with X bracing. I will do a cable suppended system on this with some bottom float support and probably use 6 strap hinges that really only are there for guidance if I get the rest as I hope to.
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Got quite abit to do yet but a couple three days for old men will finish it.

Well spent half a day gethering parts and rest of the day installing them.

Due to me not PRE planning the big 9 feet wide 4x4 post gate, it poses some problems for me. One is I did not install a 6x6 gate post for it and super deluxe it in and also it is right in my corner.

Now normally I would have found another solution and complete rework for another section of the garden to install this gate but fact it it will be used once or twice a year at the most and I think a bit of cable suppension engineering will solve it.

I have also found that todays cabling has left on direction of support on the shared center corner post that will now also be the gate post to be desired. I will get another eye hook and turnbuckel and solve this one tomorrow morning.

You may see the gaping mis looking cut in my miters but factually this X brace also was an after thought and I had only a twisted 4x4 member to put in there and while it was cut with percision as was the rest when the twist got straighted in the install it makes my cut really bad. Small eye sore that can be fixed but I hate shoddy work.

Here is a couple shots of the start of my suppension system.

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That 4th cable to the right hand second corner post tomorrow will take some more of the supposed pressure off the center post and allow me to continue to turn my corner into a gate.

I will add a bottom support on it as well tomorrow and then probably start with 4 hinges that should only guide it if the rest is properly constructed and not actully hold up the massive gate as the 3rd cable and bottom support should do all the supporting.

When the two slid bolts are engaged then the gate should serve as a corner as well when not in use as a gate.

It really was a simple enough thing but not inexpensive or quick to do but the freedom to have a tractor size gate is almost a must and I think we got a good solution to it all.

Well this job is nearing done.

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Still some odds and ends and then planting to do.

Hope to have a good garden by next year.

Started working on an irrigation system for this garden as well now and that is going to cost another 5000.00 so I hope I live 20 years to see part of this paid back.

Looking forward to good eats.

Hatmkur,

I can't help but notice your topsoil is red rather than the black found in Chicago. What state do you reside in? What is the pH of the soil in your area? I imagine you have different gardening challenges than we experience here.

Thank you for showing the considerable efforts you have to go through to keep critters out of your nest.

Regards,

Thank you Cathy, I am in VA and the red soil is the junk below and the black I am adding in the early photo is the top soil.

I am not sure of the PH and have not done the kind of gardening that most of you likely do but instead have lived in a area where all garden based on knowlege passed down and not science. We judge PH and such by what weeds start to grow. Sage brush means it needs lime for example. Not very scientific I know but I tried a scientific approach once and VPI send me all bad instructions while my old hillbilly neighbors tried for 5 years to get me to listen to them instead. Finally I conceeded and that time I also succeeded.

I decided to leave the science of it to the ones smarter than me and I would just try the old ways that always work here.

The fencing in a new way as I had to rid one of my dogs but before this we had the deer at bay.