We put this portion of the fence up for two reasons, One, to stop the local kitty-cats from entering the garden at night (Now normally I would be OK with sharing our catnip, but I put my foot down once I began finding puke on the back doorstep, damn party animals!). And number two is to prevent the neighbors from throwing trash in our yard. One of the perks of City-Living! The section of San Diego we live in is comprised of old military housing built in the 1940's (A few layers of paint later and we pay a $1140.00 a month!), and lucky for us these lovely duplexes are about spitting distance from one another. So up went the fence because I don't like litter bugs.
Hubby built the wooden frame out of 1x1's, then unrolled reed, which he framed with lath. He put a stain/water-proof combo on the reed and a stain on the wood. This was then bolted to the existing chain link fence. It looks great! Especially compared to the 3 ft. high ghetto gate we had to look at before. Fences this low make no sense to me, what are they keeping out?
Putting up the fence made me think of the story of Mumkin by Stephan Cosgrove. It's about a pony who hates to share, Mumkin the pony builds a high fence around his part of the meadow but finds himself a prisoner when the other ponies build similar fences. So every book in this series has a moral to the story, and this one is, "TEAR DOWN YOUR BORDERS OF THICKET AND VINE CREATING A FREE WORLD, YOURS AND MINE". I like fences.
