Thread: New garden for the lads!

Thanks! We got the job finished just before our spell of hot weather in the UK came to an end and it started raining! (perfect timing eh?).

Ours is very much a DIY job so there are no guarantees that it's 100% cat proof. But it's quite a small L-shaped garden and we would still keep an eye on the lads when they are outside, just in case. We could not have afforded the professional cat-proof fencing installed by a proper company, and I don't know how they would have coped with driving fence posts into the ground when we have no lawn, a large patio and lots of shallow conifer roots where you just can't dig. So we attached long green garden rods to the exisiting wall, and attached netting to them, and then more netting at an angle, using the tree branches, to create a canopy.

I don't think they'll try to climb the netting, as it's too flimsy to take their weight, and there are lots of trees to climb anyway.

But how knackered are we after doing this job! Like any job, you discover complications along the way. For example, we noticed that the wall was unstable in several places, so we had to mix up some cement and re-set a few bricks, and re-point! Heavy, heavy work, but luckily the OH is a dab hand, and I am the willing assistant!