A Bit More Gardening

Saturday afternoon/night, I worked on the second trellis for my garden.  It starts out looking like this:

And as I build it, the boys play with stepping in the squares and sometimes try (and mostly fail) to cut the string for me after I finish each lashing:

I learned how to do the lashing from volume 24 of Kitchen Garden magazine.  I have 31 of the 32 issues, and have been referring to them a lot this year. Here's a close-up:

Buying some 6' bamboo stakes and a roll of cotton twine makes this cost a fraction of what buying a finished trellis would cost.  Plus I've learned a new skill!

Here's the garden as it was Sunday morning, before I installed the second trellis and put rabbit netting around the second bed: