Recycled Fence

My very favorite project to do is the free kind. We had a garden spot when we moved in and it had a few garden boxes in it. I am personally not a fan of garden boxes because I feel like they waste a lot of space between boxes, so out they came. We shoveled out the rock, tilled it all up and turned the whole spot into a garden.

The problem is that we also have a dog (Wilson) who likes to eat the food in our garden, and we also have small children who think it's fun to pick the food. We decided we needed to put a fence up ASAP if we were going to have any type of fresh garden food that year. Money is always tight and a fence wasn't on our list. But browsing the local classifieds is a true obsession of mine and one day I came across a jackpot. Someone had ripped out a crappy old fence and replaced it, and wanted to get rid of the wood slats. ME! I I immediately text on them and they told us to come get them. 

Many of the slats were cracked, broken, had nails in them, and were not in usable condition. But we found plenty that were perfect for what we needed and off we went building our own little fence. Travis got it all started and left me to nail on the boards. 

We always have kiddos helping us on our projects. 

When the fence was brown it still looked pretty ghetto. But we always have paint on hand and so painting was my next step. Once we got it painted it it looked (almost) like new. It was perfect. We even added a little gate for entry. Because of the position of our garden and the shape of our lot, we only had to fence the front off which made the project super quick and easy.