I’ve gotta admit: I’m a total tech-head. My husband is a web designer and Apple specialist (we call him the iDoctor), and he’s quite the technophile. Here at HQ, computers control the show: multiple synced wireless devices integrate with airport speakers on three floors, a Mac Mini runs the television, and there are hourly, automated backups. We’ve got the gizmos and the whiz-bangs and the purty matching iphones. Even our incomes are intimately tied to, and ultimately reliant upon, our laptops.
And I’m happily high-tech in so many ways, but I’ve got to be honest: when I can successfully implement something like this – the lowest of low-tech solutions – it gets me giddier than geek at Macworld.
The Problem:
Enthusiastic pooches, in hot pursuit of city kitties (who in turn are stalking backyard hens) barrel through my raised beds and unwittingly trample my precious veggies. I need to keep the canine crusaders at bay, without restricting my own access or corrupting my garden’s aesthetic.
The Solution:
Hot pink string.
I love my boy-dogs dearly, but they’re not the brightest little bulbs. The mere illusion of a barrier is quite enough to stop them dead in their tracks, and protect my delicate seedlings from certain doggy destruction. See?
I built a sort of ‘web wall’ here, but you could just as easily wrap the string around the corner posts of the planter box itself, containing just the bed. There’s a ton of applications, and I think this technique could address all sorts of garden mischief. Ahh, simplicity. Who needs all them whiz-bang gizmos, anyway?! (I do!, I do!)
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