Raised Bed Covers.

Hubby tackled another great project in the past few weeks that put his carpentry skills to work once again. The first day we let all thirteen chickens out to free range after we got our second set of seven, we found out the hard way real quick that chickens WILL destroy your garden vegetables. They just would not stay out of the raised beds and they kept pulling chunks out of the leaves of the lettuce and cabbage plants.

So for a temporary resolution we would cover the plants with towels and drop cloths... but, then that was a pain and we thought if we came up with something permanent... that could keep chicken AND other animals (deer, raccoons, etc.) out of the raised beds... then we could take down the perimeter plot saver fence around the summer plot all together for the Winter! And so the designing and constructing began...

First one complete! Now to make four more...

Measuring for the two smaller ones.

All five finished!! Protection from the animals and easy to water. So creative!