Just the other day, the importance of fences was starkly impressed on us: A flock of sheep escaped their enclosure and ate almost everything I had planted — with an overabundance of optimism — outside ...

Lily asks: A friend of mine says she is going to build a wattle fence around a small vegetable garden. Rather than appear unworldly, I didn't ask her for a description of this wattle fence. What is a ...

Gardeners often end up with a pile of brush after summer (or winter) pruning and then haul it away to the clean-green dump, cut it up in pieces no longer than 4 feet for neighborhood yard-waste ...

A gardener presses a willow branch down after weaving it through sticks planted in the ground. Joel Wintermantle Chicago Tribune Back when everything came from the land, fences were made from what you ...

May is prime time for gardens, and garden inspiration. The Insider is mixing it up a bit this spring, with some garden posts to meet the season. – CG Brook Klausing’s clients had recently purchased ...

CONTRADA PETRARO, Sicily – They come in the middle of the night and are gone by morning. But without fail, they leave their calling cards: Pronged footprints and gashes in the ground where they've dug ...

The basic structure of a wattle fence is a line of posts stuck in the ground and withies woven in and out. Barbara Damrosch - The Washington Post Back when everything came from the land, fences were ...

CONTRADA PETRARO, Sicily — They come in the middle of the night and are gone by morning. But without fail, they leave their calling cards: Pronged footprints and gashes in the ground where they’ve dug ...

CONTRADA PETRARO, Sicily >> They come in the middle of the night and are gone by morning. But without fail, they leave their calling cards: Pronged footprints and gashes in the ground where they’ve ...

This March 26, 2018 photo shows writer Cain Burdeau cutting to length a branch to make a post for a garden wattle fence he’s making on a property he lives on with his family in Contrada Petraro in the ...

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