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Our Creekside Garden is still in
the planning (and planting) stages. We
are landscaping in every direction, with
our biggest project being the lawn,
vegetable and flower gardens (elk buffet?).

We're using some of our favorite garden
designs - incorporating native plants,
juniper fence posts, an arbor, and
old-fashioned looped wire.

It is essential that we design a garden to
keep the rabbits, elk, and deer on the
outside and the veggies and flowers
safely on the inside. Here are photos of
our design and the results.

The basics of the elk-proofing is a double
fence system. The outside fence is 4'
larger than the interior fence (see
photos). This idea has been used
successfully in Alaska, and if necessary
we will add a rock moat around the
outside fence. So far, so good - elk tracks
around the outside, but it appears they
aren't anxious to jump the width of the
two fences and be confined inside the
garden area.

We are harvesting tomatoes, lots of
letuce, beans, chilies, onions, and
flowers! We started our frost sensitive
plants in "Wall-o-Water" plastic tents -
which protected tender plants from wind
and cool nighttime temperatures.
atch this page for updates and
information about our elk-proofing
efforts. The resident "mesa herd" of 35
elk are busy calving at this time, and we
have other daily visitors like mule deer
and turkey.
Visit often and watch us grow...

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