Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Veggie garden friends of Mid-Atlantic. , 1 by greenhouse_gal

greenhouse_gal wrote:
At least with my chickens there'd be more than a little veggie damage. They can scratch an area down to bare earth in no time flat, looking for bugs and seeds. We have hawk issues, too, but the geese seem to protect the chickens. When we had fenced the geese in another area we lost several chickens, but since we've returned them to the same pasture things have been fine, even though there's a redtail that lives on the other side of our woods by the road, and I often see him circling.

We have some old boards that we kept after we remodeled a cottage on the property as an art studio for me. I don't know what kind of wood it was, but it was probably milled on our lane many years ago. Some of the boards are 14 or 15 inches wide. I used one of them for a garden sign, although I wish the letters showed up better: