With the husband determined to help out with yard work, he took the big decision to buy an angle grinder, with a view to turning some of the discarded corrie around the place into garden bed retainers. And we both figured it was a tool we’d find more jobs to turn it to once we’d made the commitment. One cut-in-half piece of corrie later, and the angle grinder’s going back to the shop. Refusing to start again!
From high-tech (for us) to low, a lot more success with a bit of Steph improvisation. Veg garden to be bounded by two concentric circles was successfully marked out with a stick, a piece of a string, a pair of scissors and a tiny set square!
The stick marked the garden’s centre, after a bit of juggling to translate something that looked good on paper to something that would work when imposed on a tricky, uneven area between the shed and the clothesline. The string was knotted to mark the radius of both circles.
The scissors had the string looped through their handles, to create a plumb bob.
And the set square was held at the knot of the extended string, to make sure it was level, while the dangling scissors indicated the new garden’s boundary.
Next step: finalise materials for garden surrounds and start constructing them.
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